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Posted on 09/30/2025 5:13:28 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
Two of the US Senate’s most senior lawmakers are once again teaming up to overhaul America’s high-skilled H-1B and L-1 visa systems, saying companies have turned what was meant to be a tool for innovation into a loophole for outsourcing.
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley and Ranking Member Dick Durbin reintroduced the H-1B and L-1 Visa Reform Act.
This latest push comes just weeks after US President Donald Trump signed a sweeping presidential proclamation on H-1B visa applications. Under the new order, companies are now required to pay a one-time fee of $100,000 (around Rs 88 lakh) on every new H-1B visa application.
Earlier, the senators sent letters to 10 major employers, including Amazon, Google, and Meta, questioning why they were filing thousands of visa petitions even as they laid off American employees.
"Congress created the H-1B and L-1 visa programmes as limited pathways for businesses to acquire top talent when it can’t be found at home," Grassley said in a statement.
"But over the years, many employers have used them to cut out American workers in favour of cheap foreign labour. Congress must step in again to bring integrity back to these programmes and restore dignity for American and foreign workers," he added.
Durbin repeated the concern, pointing to mass layoffs in tech. "Major companies are laying off thousands of American workers while filing thousands of visa petitions for foreign workers at depressed wages and poor working conditions," he said. "Congress must step in to protect American workers and fix our broken immigration system."
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Don’t “reform”, CANCEL!!
Dick Durbin? Am I reading this right? It’s early.
I get what you’re saying... but Durbin also said he wanted to ‘fix our broken immigration system.” Amnesty anyone?
“ Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley and Ranking Member Dick Durbin reintroduced the H-1B and L-1 Visa Reform Act.”
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I’m not sure I’d willingly eat a meal prepared jointly by these two “cooks”.
“ Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley and Ranking Member Dick Durbin reintroduced the H-1B and L-1 Visa Reform Act.”
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I’m not sure I’d willingly eat a meal prepared jointly by these two “cooks”.
“ Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley and Ranking Member Dick Durbin reintroduced the H-1B and L-1 Visa Reform Act.”
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I’m not sure I’d willingly eat a meal prepared jointly by these two “cooks”.
Yeah, this is BS. Durbin and Grassley are not here for us. They are here for them. Both swamp creatures.
Yep.
Bipartisan = not good enough.
H1B Indians wrote the 737 MAX software.
Not surprised.
So this is their “best and brightest”.
Give the best & brightest (Indians) credit: They’ll have workarounds for whatever legislation these bozos craft before the ink is dry on their “reform.”
There’s no need for reform. Shut it down & send them home.
Not the MCAS which caused the crashes.
Boeing utilized contractors (including temporary workers and low-paid professionals from Indian technology firms like HCL Technologies) for the development and testing of some of the 737 MAX’s broader software systems.
Kill the visa altogether. The only fair solution.
Tech companies have been feeding at the trough for 30 years! ENOUGH IS ENOUGH! Kill the damn thing!!!
Yes, but that had nothing to do with the crashes. The MCAS module that caused the crashes was designed, built and tested inhouse by their core engineering team.
We may never know for certain.
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