Trump To Overhaul H-1B Visa Program To Encourage Hiring Americans (theguardian.com)

An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: In a bid to court working class voters, Donald Trump will sign an executive order on Tuesday to revamp a temporary visa program used to bring foreign workers to fill jobs in the U.S. The president will use a visit to a manufacturing company in Kenosha, Wisconsin, a crucial state he snatched from Hillary Clinton in the election, to promote his latest "Buy America Hire America" offensive. Trump's executive order will call on government departments to introduce reforms to ensure that H-1B visas are awarded to the "most skilled or highest paid applicants," a senior administration official said. The executive order will also call for the "strict enforcement" of laws governing entry to the U.S. of labor from overseas, with a view to creating higher wages and employment rates for U.S. workers. The order will also call on government departments to "take prompt action to crack down on fraud and abuse" in the immigration system, a senior administration official said. The administration official sad: "Right now H-1B visas are awarded by random lottery and many of you will be surprised to know that about 80% of H-1B workers are paid less than the median wage in their fields. Only 5% to 6%, depending on the year, of H-1B workers command the highest wage tier recognized by the Department of Labor. [...] If you change that current system that awards visas randomly, without regard for skill or wage, to a skills-based awarding, it makes it extremely difficult to use the visa to replace or undercut American workers [...] It's a very elegant way of solving very systemic problems in the H-1B guest worker visa."

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B-b-b-b-but he's a RETHUGLICAN!!!

[Anonymous Coward]

Must comport with standard progtard kneejerk reactions and reject this!

Re:Make America Great

[Anonymous Coward]

The better question is what he's done right.

For starters, he has rolled back regulations and appointed a moderate conservative supreme court justice.

More importantly, he has not done all the crap that Hillary was promising to do. Most people voted for Trump because he wasn't Hillary.

So far he has signed an unconstitutional executive order

Really? Where did SCOTUS determine that?

inflamed tensions with Russia and North Korea,

Unlike... Hillary?

sent his press secretary out to blatantly and obviously lie to the press,

And that's different from previous presidents... how? And Americans should care... why?

vacillated on his positions regarding Syria, China, and NATO,

And that's different from previous presidents... how?

accused the previous administration of criminality with no proof or evidence,

I think there is plenty of proof and evidence that the Obama administration misused its spying apparatus on political opponents. Whether that was criminal is another question.

and acted surprised that things like health care legislation and international relations are complicated. He tweets at 3 AM about Arnold Schwarzenegger's performance at his old job, like some teenage girl jealous that Brian likes Becky now.

And Hillary smells of elderberries. Who the f*ck cares.