Republican presidential front- runner Donald Trump for the first time acknowledged that he uses the much sought after H-1B visas at his own businesses but sought to end the program which he claimed was “very unfair” to American workers as it took away their jobs.
The last Republican presidential debate in Miami began with all the four White House aspirants slamming the H-1B visa system - used to employ highly-skilled foreign workers and popular among Indian techies, with Florida Senator Marco Rubio even naming Tata and India as part of his anti-H-1B rhetoric.
I know the H-1B very well. And it’s something that I frankly use and I shouldn’t be allowed to use it. We shouldn’t have it. Very, very bad for workers. It’s very bad for business, it’s very bad for our workers and it’s unfair for our workers. We should end itDonald Trump
The real estate tycoon’s properties are spread over in Virginia, Illinois, Florida, New Jersey, Nevada, New York, California, Connecticut and Hawaii in the US and in Canada, Turkey, Panama, South Korea, the Philippines, India and Uruguay. IT professionals from India and major Indian IT companies are major beneficiary of H-1B, a non-immigrant visa in the US which allows US employers to temporarily employ foreign workers in specialty occupations.
Marco Rubio also said it is illegal under the H-1B program to use it to replace American workers. The current structure of the program is such that a lot of these companies are not directly hiring employees from abroad.
They are hiring a consulting company like Tata, for example, out of India. That company then hoards up all of these visas. They hire workers. Disney or some other company hires this company.Marco Rubio
Rubio argued that no consulting business should be allowed to hoard up all of the visas and that the visas should only be available for companies to directly hire workers and that we should be stricter in how they enforce it.
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