President Donald Trump’s deputies are junking an Obama-era regulation that allows foreign workers to seek a new U.S. job after they lose the specific employment that justified their work-permit visas.
\n\nFortune 500 lobbyists say that “H-1B [visa] workers are supposed to be doing a specific job that Americans aren’t able to do,” immigration lawyer John Miano told Breitbart News. “That’s what we’re told, and if that is the case, when that job goes away, there’s no need for them, and they should go home.”
\n\n“Congress is not going to pass a law changing this — there just isn’t the political will to do it,” Vice President JD Vance told a September 15 meeting of investors. He added:
\n\nSo we’re doing a lot within the confines, of course, of what we’re allowed to do legally. We’ve gotten sued on some of this stuff, but I think fundamentally we’re on the right on both the law and the policy. The H-!b should not exist to replace American workers with low wage foreigners. It should exist to enrich the American economy, and that’s exactly what we’re trying to make sure it does.
\n\nTrump’s decision to end the 60-day job-search period — dubbed the…
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