The reform will end the annual award of 85,000 H-1B visas by lottery, which has been gamed by companies to import foreign workers at wages far below the salaries needed by American professionals. Instead, the visas will be offered to the companies that compete to offer the highest salaries, preventing employers from undercutting American graduates. Acting DHS Deputy Secretary Ken Cuccinelli, said:
"The Trump administration is continuing to deliver on its promise to protect the American worker while strengthening the economy. The current use of random selection to allocate H-1B visas ... hurts American workers by bringing in relatively lower-paid foreign labor at the expense of the American workforce."Kevin Lynn, founder of U.S. Tech Workers, which opposes the H-1B and other visa worker programs, said:
"We have seen more progress in the last few weeks than we've seen in the last 30 years. If you look at it on the whole, Trump is siding with working Americans. Look at the beginning of his administration when he canceled the Trans-Pacific Partnership. All the elites wanted that — he said no. He allowed labor into [negotiations about] NAFTA II — the USMCA — and they made a better deal for working man and women. On August 3, for the Tennessee Valley Authority, he used the authority he had to protect those white-collar jobs [from H-1B outsourcing]. So he's clearly made a choice between the elites and working men and women."
Comment: Trump made promises to lift up the American worker...and, again he just did. The impact of this decision will permeate through the system to the advantage of all of America - given he has four more years.