President-elect Donald Trump expresses his continued support for the H-1B visa program, which brings foreign workers to the United States, primarily from India, to fill white-collar jobs. He acknowledges the program's critics, who argue that it displaces American workers and leads to wage suppression. Trump highlights his own experience with utilizing the H-1B visa program on his properties and emphasizes its benefits.
President-elect Donald Trump says he has “always been in favor” of the H-1B visa program that imports hundreds of thousands of foreign workers, primarily from India, to take white-collar American jobs. “I have many H-1B visas on my properties. I’ve been a believer in H-1B,” Trump continued. “I have used it many times. It’s a great program.
” The H-1B visa program has divided proponents, mainly billionaire Elon Musk, Vivek Ramaswamy, and other tech investors, and critics from the political right and left. Critics point to abuses against white-collar American professionals as a result of the H-1B visa program. There are about 650,000 H-1B visa holders of tech workers in Silicon Valley, California, are foreign-born, while the tech industry in the San Francisco, Oakland, and Hayward area is made up of 50 percent foreign-born tech workers. Up to Trump, in particular, for years has been a critic of corporations abusing the H-1B visa program to hold down wages in white-collar industries by laying off American professionals only to replace them with foreign workers. In 2015, Trump’s immigration agenda laid out key reforms for the H-1B visa program to prevent such gaming of the system by corporations, Breitbart News called for also increasing the prevailing wage when it comes to the issuance of H-1B visas so as to get Americans — especially Hispanics, blacks, and women — hired into corporate positions in Silicon Valley rather than foreigners. It is here where he points out that Rubio — who along with former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush is one of the two candidates in the Republican primary against Trump that the donor class is pulling for — has put forward legislation that would drastically harm American workers’ job prospects, and he’s done so on behalf of Zuckerberg and other donors. “We graduate two times more Americans with STEM degrees each year than find STEM jobs, yet as much as two-thirds of entry-level hiring for IT jobs is accomplished through the H-1B program,” Trump wrot
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