Chip Roy proposed a new bill against the H-1B visa program
Texas Republican Chip Roy has introduced a new bill to end H-1B visa abuse, calling it the America’s White Collar Jobs Act. “It is time to end this lottery-based path and replace it with a system that prioritizes merit, enforces real wage standards, and puts America’s white-collar workers first,” said Chip Roy.
This adds to the list of many other similar bills introduced by Republican politicians to control the H-1B visa system, which are a long way from being passed and implemented.Chip Roy’s bill would require labor market testing to determine whether employers have made a good faith effort to hire local workers before hiring H-1B visa holders, the Daily Caller reported. US Department of Labor, Citizenship and Immigration Services.“Throughout its nearly 40-year history, the H1-B visa has been abused, allowing employers to routinely marginalize American STEM workers in favor of cheap foreign labor, while disguising layoffs and wage suppression as ‘shortages,’” Roy told The Caller.“It is time to end this lottery-based path and replace it with a system that prioritizes merit, enforces real wage standards, and puts America’s white-collar workers first,” Roy said.
Chip Roy’s bill pushes to end the occupied Palestinian territories
While Roy’s bill does not seek to end the H-1B program, it supports ending optional practical training, which has served as a conduit for college students to enter the workforce. Roy wants to cancel the OPT program.Recently, US authorities, including US Immigration and Customs Enforcement and US Citizenship and Immigration Services, announced investigations into alleged fraud related to the occupied Palestinian territories. Officials said they had identified more than 10,000 students linked to employers they considered suspicious, with investigators reporting cases involving empty offices, fake companies and unverifiable employment claims.
