Anticipating a more protectionist US technology visa program under a Donald Trump administration, India’s $150 billion IT services sector will speed up acquisitions in the United States and recruit more heavily from US college campuses, Fortune reported. “The world over, there’s a lot of protectionism coming in and push back on immigration. Unfortunately, people are confusing immigration with a high-skilled temporary workforce, because we are really a temporary workforce,” said Pravin Rao, COO at Infosys, India’s second-largest information technology firm.

“We have to accelerate hiring of locals if they are available, and start recruiting freshers from universities there,” Rao said, noting a shift from the traditional model of mainly recruiting experienced people in the US. “Now we have to get into a model where we will recruit freshers, train them and gradually deploy them, and this will increase our costs,” he said, noting Infosys typically recruits 500 to 700 people each quarter in the US and Europe, about 80% of whom are locals.