Donald Trump, zingers and all, emerges as sharp H-1B critic [View all]

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http://www.computerworld.com/article/2970928/it-outsourcing/donald-trump-zingers-and-all-emerges-as-sharp-h-1b-critic.html

Trump's immigration plan, released Sunday, includes the ideas and thinking of some of the Senate's strongest H-1B critics. It was immediately endorsed by one senator.

"This is exactly the plan America needs," said Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala), the chair of the Senate's Immigration subcommittee, said in a statement Sunday regarding Trump's overall immigration policy proposal. "Not only would the plan outlined in this paper work, but more quickly than many realize."

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"Raising the prevailing wage paid to H-1Bs will force companies to give these coveted entry-level jobs to the existing domestic pool of unemployed native and immigrant workers in the U.S., instead of flying in cheaper workers from overseas," wrote Trump.

Second, Trump wants a requirement that companies hire U.S. workers first. Critics says without this requirement, visa workers can be used to replace U.S. workers. "We need companies to hire from the domestic pool of unemployed," wrote Trump.

I'll just point out that the H-1B program currently requires hiring US workers first, so I'm not sure what repeating that requirement will actually do.

This whole subject, incidentally, along with trade, is a fracture line that the two existing party coalitions are kind of cracking up over. I'm curious what will shake out here...