When conservative news host and Fox journalist Laura Ingraham interviewed Republican Congressman Chip Roy on his new proposed legislation against the H-1B visa program, Ingraham told Roy that congressmen from both parties are “to blame” for the abuse of the visa program because many large donors kept wages at the lowest level and continued to insist that they could not find any Americans to work with those wage levels.Laura asked Roy, “Why would any American kid go into engineering if he thinks they (companies) will bring someone from India or Pakistan or China to take his place in a few years? Why?”“My son is a rising junior and my daughter is a rising sophomore. We’re looking at colleges and trying to figure out what we’re going to do. Three-quarters of American STEM students don’t get employment after college. That’s the reality when you have corporate America doing what they’ve been doing for years, which is importing cheap labor, because of the Wall Street Journal editorial or the Chamber of Commerce talking points. It sounds good at the point,” Chip Roy said, adding that Republicans have done the same. Roy then accused Democrats of still emphasizing immigration, leading to a flurry of scandals.Chip Roy’s legislation against the H-1B visa program proposes to eliminate the lottery system, which this year switched from a random lottery to a salary-based lottery for the first time. Roy wants to end the lottery system and replace it with merit-based selection.
Chip Roy’s anti-H1B proposal
- Prevent employers from hiring H1-B workers if they have fired workers in the past year.
- End the H1-B lottery and instead review applicants based on merit.
- Final adjustment of status allowing H1-B visa holders to apply for lawful permanent residence, reducing the visa’s intended temporary status.
- Labor market testing conducted by DOL and USCIS to review the hiring practices of employers to ensure that they have made efforts to hire locals/Americans first.
- End the Optional Practical Training Program, which drives overseas displacement of American workers into STEM jobs