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A new report suggests that the mere threat of President Donald Trump’s executive order to investigate abuses to American workers due to the H-1B visa is making U.S. companies rethink their hiring practices.

Rep. Dave Brat (R-VA) is singling out the H-1B visa program in a new op-ed for its harmful impact on American workers.

House Speaker Paul Ryan has a critical choice to make in the next few days: Whether he will please company executives by allowing them to import more H-2B visa workers, or else please the GOP’s base of blue-collar Americans by helping them get jobs at higher wages.

Outsourcing firms, which supply major U.S. companies with thousands of foreign workers, are being called-out by the Trump White House.

The Australian government has taken the lead from President Donald Trump in the race to improve immigrant vetting, to exclude Islamic ideology, and to reform wage-slashing guestworker programs similar to the U.S. H-1B visa.

Reuters has found that more than 15 percent of Facebook’s U.S. staff are immigrants employed through H-1B temporary work visas.

While President Donald Trump amasses praise from labor unions and pro-American work advocates for his cracking down on abuse within the H-1B visa program, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce is distressed by the executive order.

President Donald Trump is getting praise from experts on the H-1B foreign guest worker visa for his ‘Hire American’ Executive Order which calls for a review into the system’s abuse at the expense of American workers.

Four federal agencies will put many U.S. visa worker programs, including the white-collar H-1B program, through a “full legal analysis,” a White House official told reporters Monday night.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – President Donald Trump’s senior adviser Stephen Miller held a closed door meeting this week at the White House to discuss the controversial H-1B foreign guest worker visa program.

The fashion industry’s trade association is joining with Mark Zuckerberg’s lobbying group on Monday to argue that employers need more visas to hire more foreign professionals for high-fashion jobs in New York City that young American graduates supposedly just won’t do.

The New York fashion establishment’s close ties to the open borders lobby will be on full display during an upcoming joint press conference calling for the continued flow of low-skilled legal immigration.

The Trump Administration created a tool for Americans to report H-1B visa fraud in their workplace.

On the day the H-1B visa program is open for applications by employers, mostly from the tech industry, the Department of Justice (DOJ) is warning companies not to replace American workers with foreign help.

Movie theaters around the country are screening a glamorous new movie about a struggling-yet-handsome Indian H-1B contract-worker in the United States — but viewers aren’t told that the movie was funded by lobbyists to help import more foreign workers for the moviegoers’ own white-collar jobs.

A pair of tech executives have been indicted for allegedly using false documents to bring in help through the H-1B guest worker program.

An effort to weed out foreign workers under the H-1B visa program is getting support from President Donald Trump.

A bill to curtail the number of Americans being replaced by foreign guest workers through the H-1B visa “would have zero impact” on the program, according to an expert on the issue.

President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the Department of Labor, Alexander Acosta, said during a congressional hearing that he believed it is “not the intent” to replace American employees with cheaper, foreign ones under the H-1B visa program.

Business advocates who want to import more foreign consumers and more foreign workers are developing plans to counter President Donald Trump’s popular call for a merit-based immigration reform.

Open borders are the only path to defeating President Donald Trump, a Salon writer claims.

Goldman Sachs estimates that almost one million foreign H-1B contract-workers are now employed in college-level jobs throughout the United States, even though media routinely say the federal government approves only 85,000 H-1B visas per year.

The open borders lobby is bracing for a fight with President Donald Trump’s administration over the H-1B foreign guest worker program, which opponents say is discriminatory against American workers.

White House officials have announced they are temporarily closing a fast-track process for companies seeking to hire foreign professionals via the controversial H-1B outsourcing program.

The University of California, San Francisco, laid off 79 IT workers this week after making the decision to outsource their work to a firm in India.

A minority of registered voters believe the foreign guest worker H-1B visa program is necessary, according to a new poll by POLITICO and Morning Consult.

President Donald Trump is set to suggest tonight a huge overhaul of the nation’s immigration rules that would reduce the huge inflow of low-skill, welfare-dependent immigrants, but perhaps increase the inflow of productivity-boosting white-collar immigrants.

GoDaddy CEO Blake Irving blamed Silicon Valley’s use of H-1B visas on the “technical illiteracy” of Americans in a post on his official blog.

A report claims that job availability in the computer science field would be up by as much as 11% and that wages would have increased by 5% if the H-1B visa system allowing companies to employ foreign workers in high-skilled fields had not been introduced.

A number of multinational tech companies fear what could be President Donald Trump’s next move on the issue of foreign guest worker visas that are allotted to corporations every year.

In the latest high visibility offshoring of Silicon Valley jobs to India, the San Francisco Business Times (SFBT) reported last month that the Pacific Gas and Electric Co. (PG&E) will offshore about 72 information technology (IT) jobs from San Francisco to India in a restructuring that could slash labor costs by 75 percent.

A leading Indian software entrepreneur says Indian companies must accept President Donald Trump’s pro-American policies and must start hiring Americans instead of sending Indian white-collar H-1B visa workers into American job sites.

Silicon Valley start-ups appear to be moving employees to Vancouver’s Silicon Valley North more rapidly in response to increasing U.S. enforcement of immigration and labor laws.

Silicon Valley’s relationship with the Trump administration may soon become even further strained as President Trump is reportedly set to announce reforms of the H-1B visa system.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is criticizing Donald Trump’s plans to build a border wall with Mexico and to curb migrants entering the United States from several Muslim countries.

President Donald Trump’s deputies have yet to stop the Department of Homeland Security from printing more of President Obama’s work permits for younger illegals.