Sara Lane, a self-described Trump supporter "from day one," expressed confusion this week after her husband was laid off following the implementation of H1B visa restrictions she vocally championed on social media.
Lane's husband, a legal immigrant who became a U.S. citizen in 2006 after arriving on a student visa in 1996 and later obtaining an H1B work visa, was recently forced to accept a 30% pay cut before being laid off entirely. The layoffs coincided with the Trump administration's September 2025 proclamation implementing a $100,000 fee for new H1B visa petitions and broader restrictions on the program.
"We are hurting. We are still significantly financially behind where we were 5 years ago," Lane wrote in a November 2025 post, citing H1B visa policies as the "number one reason" for their financial struggles. The Federal Reserve has cited Trump's immigration policies as a factor in the jobs market slowdown.
Lane's advocacy timeline reveals a clear progression of policy preferences. In August 2025, she posted that her husband "knows the program is now a scam and thinks they need to end all H1Bs," despite having personally benefited from the program for decades. The same month, she wrote "Fire them all. Start over" in reference to CDC workers.
The CDC subsequently saw multiple rounds of layoffs throughout 2025, including approximately 1,300 probationary employees in February, 2,400 employees in April, and an additional 600 workers in October. The agency has lost approximately 33% of its workforce since January 2025, though Lane's social media posts do not indicate whether she has reconsidered this particular policy stance.
Immigration experts and business groups warned that dramatic H1B restrictions could sideline smaller businesses, push skilled talent to other countries, and weaken U.S. competitiveness, though Lane's posts from earlier in 2025 did not address these concerns.
