In a setback for H-1B visa holders, especially Indian IT professionals in the United States, President Donald Trump has signed an executive order that prevents federal agencies from hiring or outsourcing foreign workers, primarily those with H visas. -1B, hired.
Trump said the H-1B visa was never meant for the best high-paying talent to create American jobs, not as cheap job programs and destroy American jobs.
The move came more than a month after the Trump administration suspended H-1B visas along with other types of work visas abroad until June 2020 to protect American workers in an election year. crucial. The new restrictions took effect on June 24.
The most sought after among IT professionals in India, the H1B visa is a non-immigrant visa that allows US companies to hire foreign workers in specialized occupations that require theoretical or technical experience.
Technology companies depend on it to hire tens of thousands of employees each year from countries like India and China.
"Today I am signing an executive order to ensure that the federal government lives by a very simple, more American rule," Trump told reporters in the Oval Office of the White House before signing the order against hiring headlines. H1B visas for federal contracts.
Trump told reporters that his administration will not tolerate the firing of hardworking Americans in search of cheap foreign labor.
"As we speak, we are finalizing the H-1B regulation so that no American worker is ever replaced. H-1B should be used for the highest-paid talent to create American jobs, not as cheap job programs and destroy American jobs," said the President who was surrounded by the table in the Cabinet Room with people campaigning against labor outsourcing.
These included Sara Blackwell, founder and president of the Protect US Workers organization in Florida; Jonathan Hicks, a software engineer at the Tennessee Valley Authority; and Kevin Lynn, founder of the Pennsylvania-based US Tech Workers.
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