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What do California's Silicon Valley and its Central Valley have in common?

These regions both play outsized roles in our national economy.

The Bay Area, obviously, it's the mecca of U.S. tech.

And while it's hard to think of any industry more crucial than the one that gave us our

smartphones and search engines.

If you drive just three hours north, you'll find the farms that produce a quarter of this

nation's food.

What ties these industries together is that they both rely heavily on foreign workers. And right now,

that's making business complicated for different reasons. This weekend, the White House sent

tech companies scrambling with a typical Friday afternoon news dump. The president announced a

pretty significant overhaul of how the U.S. will issue a type of work visa called the H-1B.

The H-1B visa is typically for high-skilled tech workers.

Max Blau is a reporter for ProPublica.

He covers immigration and agriculture, among other beats.

With the country's H-1B visa program, the Trump administration announced a new increase

to the fee that is needed for high-skilled visa holders to obtain a visa.

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