Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) is calling for a temporary pause on the H-1B migration program amid growing recognition that it is being used to push free-speaking American professionals out of white-collar careers.
“Let’s pause the H1B program,” Lee tweeted amid a growing number of reports about the replacement of American graduates and the displacement of Americans in California, New Jersey, and Texas.
Lee is the latest addition to the growing number of GOP politicians who are talking about the damage that legalized migration actually does to middle-class Americans.
“We have an illegal and legal immigration problem in this country,” Sen. Eric Schmidt (R-MO) said on March 16. “The H-1B & OPT programs are being used to displace American workers and students by incentivizing American employers & institutions to import foreign labor. We need reform now.”
Lee posted his tweet shortly after retweeting a post from Texas suggesting fraud by one of the many Indian-run companies that import H-1B visa workers
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