Some corporations have been using the H-1B Visa program to avoid hiring and paying American workers the wages they deserve. The H-1B Visa program was set up to allow American corporations to import workers to do jobs Americans might not be qualified for or able to do. Unfortunately, some corporations have used it as a way to bring in cheaper labor from overseas and avoid paying American workers a living wage.<\/p>\n
On Friday, The Dallas Morning News<\/a> reported:<\/p>\n An entry\u2011level software engineer in San Francisco would need to be paid $162,000 a year to qualify for an H\u20111B visa under a Trump administration<\/a> proposal \u2014 almost 30% more than today. In Dallas, the minimum would jump by a similar rate to $113,000 and in New York to $132,000.<\/strong><\/p>\n Those are the types of pay increases potentially in store for immigrants using the most popular path for white-collar workers to enter or stay in the US. It\u2019s part of changes to the H-1B program <\/a>that the Trump administration says will help prevent foreigners from undercutting Americans\u2019 wages.<\/strong><\/p>\n The plan to boost minimum salaries would cost the biggest employers of white-collar foreign talent at least $18 billion in the first 12 months, according to an analysis by immigration data companies Lawfully and Threshold. Within three years \u2014 when most existing H-1B visas will have to be renewed at the higher level \u2014 the annual cost could reach as high as $43 billion, the study found.<\/strong><\/p>\n The H-1B Visa program has been abused in order to lower the cost of employee salaries. The other problem with the program is that much of the money earned by the people in the program is sent out of America to other countries and never enters the American economy. It is a drain on our economy rather than a part of our economy. It truly is time to reform the program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Some corporations have been using the H-1B Visa program to avoid hiring and paying American workers the wages they deserve. The H-1B Visa program was set up to allow American corporations to import workers to do jobs Americans might not … Continue reading