Republican Chip Roy, Texas Rep, has brought a new bill to end the H-1B visa abuses, calling it the American White-Collar Worker Jobs Act. "It’s time to end this lottery-based pipeline and replace it with a system that prioritizes merit, enforces real wage standards, and puts America’s white-collar workers first," Chip Roy said. This adds to the list of several other similar bills that Republican politicians brought to control the H-1B visa system and are far from being passed and implemented.
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Daily Caller reported that Chip Roy's bill would require a labor market test to determine if employers made a good faith effort to hire local workers before hiring H-1B visa holders. The Department of Labor and the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services.
“For its nearly forty-year history, the H1-B visa has been abused, allowing employers to routinely sideline American STEM workers in favor of cheap foreign labor, while masking layoffs and wage suppression as ‘shortages,'” Roy told the Caller.
“It’s time to end this lottery-based pipeline and replace it with a system that prioritizes merit, enforces real wage standards, and puts America’s white-collar workers first,” Roy said.
