Fox News anchor Chip Roy asks why Republican members of Congress have supported the H-1B visa program for so long.
When conservative news anchor and Fox journalist Laura Ingraham interviewed Republican Congressman Chip Roy about his proposed new legislation against the H-1B visa program, Ingraham told Roy that members of Congress of both parties are “guilty” of abusing the visa program because too many major donors have kept wages at a minimum and continue to insist that they cannot find any Americans to do these jobs at these pay levels.Laura Roy asked: “Why would any American kid go into engineering if they think (companies) are going to hire someone from India or Pakistan or China to replace them in a couple of years? Why? Why? Why?”“My son is a junior and my daughter is a sophomore. We’re looking at colleges and trying to figure out what we’re going to do. Three-quarters of American STEM students can’t find work after college. That’s the reality when you have American companies doing what they’ve been doing for years, which is importing cheap labor, because it looks good in a Wall Street Journal editorial or on Chamber of Commerce talking points,” he said, adding that Republicans have done that, too.
Roy then blames Democrats for continuing to push for immigration, which has led to a wave of fraud.Chip Roy’s legislation against the H-1B visa program proposed ending the lottery system, which for the first time this year shifted from a random lottery to a pay-based lottery. Roy wants to end the lottery system and select on merit to replace him.
Chip Roy’s proposals to combat H1B
- Preventing employers from hiring H1-B workers if they laid off workers in the past year.
- End the H1-B lottery and instead review applicants based on merit.
- Ending adjustment of status allowing H1-B visa holders to apply for lawful permanent residency undermines the intended temporary status of the visa.
- Labor market testing conducted by the Department of Labor and USCIS to review employers’ hiring practices to ensure they made an effort to hire locals/Americans first.
- Eliminate the Optional Work Training Program, which leads to an exodus of American workers abroad for STEM jobs
