Employers who try to extend the visas of their temporary foreign workers must file new justifications for not hiring skilled Americans, say new regulations from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
\n\nThe rule change ended the prior deference rules, which say agency examiners must defer to years-old corporate justifications for foreign workers. The likely result will be many more denials of requests for visa workers, such as the H-1B and J-1 workers being targeted by Vice-President JD Vance’s anti-fraud campaign.
\n\n“DHS believes that removing deference [to prior justifications] would enhance program integrity and thereby better protect the interests of U.S. workers, consistent with this Administration’s priorities,” said the DHS statement.
\n\nThe priorities were sketched on October 8 by Vance:
\n\nI’m sure that everybody here understands the game that is being played: You bring in indentured servants from outside the country, you lay off American workers, and if you’re a corporation, you make a ton of money by undercutting the wages of American workers, replacing them with people who, frankly, shouldn’t be in the United States of America to begin with. This is a terribly pernicious system. It’s gone on for too long.
\n\nVance’s growing criticism of the visa programs is…
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