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The Trump administration announced additional immigration reforms on Tuesday aimed at making it more difficult for skilled foreign workers to acquire visas.

The rules, which will go into effect in 60 days, would heighten requirements for businesses that hire foreign workers on H-1B visas, according to details reviewed by The Hill. The changes may be challenged in court.

The updated regulations redefine "specialty occupations," limit the validity of an H-1B visa to one year for a worker placed at a third-party worksite, and increase enforcement tools to police companies that do not abide by H-1B rules or cooperate with site visits.

“We have entered an era in which economic security is an integral part of homeland security. Put simply, economic security is homeland security,” acting DHS Secretary Chad Wolf said in a statement. “In response, we must do everything we can within the bounds of the law to make sure the American worker is put first.”

At the same time, a new Department of Labor rule is slated to go into effect requiring employers to increase what they pay H-1B recipients in an effort to discourage companies from undercutting American workers.

Administration officials argued that the H-1B visa program had been abused at the expense of American workers, and they seized on the ongoing economic effects of the pandemic to argue the timing was right to crack down.

“Companies that have used the H-1B program have been incentivized to avoid hiring Americans… so that they can replace them with cheaper foreign labor and that abuse will end with this new rule,” Ken Cuccinelli, DHS acting deputy secretary, said on a call with reporters on Tuesday.

The DHS rule will affect over one-third of H-1B petitions. Although that does not mean an automatic rejection of the petitions, the “vast majority of them will in fact be rejected just as a statistical matter,” according to a senior department official.

“A big part of why we’re putting out the rule is to respond to the recent shock to the labor market,” a senior department official said.

Quote (excellence @ Oct 6 2020 02:42pm)

the house today said they want to break up big tech https://finance.yahoo.com/news/house-democrats-urge-internet-giants-202412213.html

trump says hire more skilled employees domestically
house says we are splitting you up

guess who big tech gets mad at more lmao

Quote (ofthevoid @ Oct 6 2020 02:38pm)

About a week ago I pointed out how the biggest US tech firms are pumping millions into Biden's campaign.

Well now we know at least one of the major reasons. As usual it boils down to money.



https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/519811-trump-administration-to-impose-new-rules-targeting-h-1b-visas

Quote (Bazi @ Oct 6 2020 05:02pm)

To be fair I think there is a supply chain problem with certain fields

How did we ever get to the point where the market prefers a biden victory

The simulation is having a lot of glitches

Quote (Black XistenZ @ Oct 6 2020 05:04pm)

Senator Josh Hawley really issued a prescient statement when he said a couple of months ago that "the interests of big business and big government are increasingly aligned".

Quote (Black XistenZ @ Oct 6 2020 05:04pm)

Senator Josh Hawley really issued a prescient statement when he said a couple of months ago that "the interests of big business and big government are increasingly aligned".

Quote (Bazi @ 6 Oct 2020 18:09)

He not wrong. Big government just took several trillion dollars and gave it to Apple, amazon, Microsoft, Boeing , et. al, etc

Big government bought corporate bonds for the first time in history iirc? No conflict of interest?

The federal government is indeed very big. The biggest

Which tech firms are donating to mr. Biden? If any of these then lmao

Quote (Bazi @ Oct 6 2020 06:02pm)

To be fair I think there is a supply chain problem with certain fields

How did we ever get to the point where the market prefers a biden victory

The simulation is having a lot of glitches