Its development will be slowed as foreign investors stay away; its integration will grind to a halt; and faltering economies will fuel ethnic animosities.
The H1-B is also how many foreign students stay and work after finishing their studies.
Most riders, many of them foreign tourists, stay on the train for a full day.
When foreign investors stay away, as many have of late, Spain has to rely on its banks for funding.
Particularly as, among likely Tory voters, there's a broad perception that foreign students stay here and scrounge.
The majority of the foreign students stay on, and many even start to like their new environment.
And this signals a grim future, in which foreign firms stay away and, eventually, American companies may abandon the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq to list their shares elsewhere.
PricewaterhouseCoopers, a firm of consultants, thinks the event could add £3.2 billion to GDP, if enough foreign fans stay a while.Worth winning?
But, Mr. Taylor said, if the disease persists into early summer and foreign visitors stay away, "that could have a major effect".
Traceurs visiting foreign countries stay with each other, train together and find themselves discovering new cities through the eyes of people who know them intimately.
