GOP leaders are clamoring behind the scenes to massively increase the number of guest-worker visas for high-tech companies if Republicans control Congress after the midterms.
According to The Hill, Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT) recently said that “there is agreement on reforming the rules governing high-tech visas, known as H-1b visas.” Hatch, “the chairman of the GOP’s High-Tech Task Force,” told an Overstock.com corporate office in Utah that H-1b reform could “help pave the way for additional and more far reaching reforms.”
Rep. Raul Labrador (R-ID), who was part of a House working group on immigration before leaving it, pushed for more “high-tech immigration” in an interview with BuzzFeed.
And, as Breitbart News noted, Rep. Jeb Hensarling (R-TX) also pushed for massive increases in high-tech and low-skilled visas in a weekend interview with The Wall Street Journal.
Though there is a surplus of American high-tech workers, companies like Microsoft are laying off 18,000 American workers–while pushing for more foreign workers.
Massive increases in guest-worker visas would only cut off opportunities for Americans to enter the middle class. Liberals, such as Vice President Joe Biden, conservatives, like Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL), and nonpartisan scholars, including Professor Ron Hira, have all agreed on this point.
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