[AU72]

Will keep an eye on this one. I'm in IT and one of 3 Americans in a department of 74.

[Navin Johnson]

This is all fine & good, but how’s about some tax cut action? Get the corporate rate down to 15% and do the 3 individual brackets at a 33% max... that is what we need to see.

[A_Former_Democrat]

Disgusting

AMERICA FIRST

[Pearls Before Swine]

Specifically, the bill would prevent companies with more than 50 employees, of which at least half are H1B or L1 holders, from hiring additional H1B employees.

That would severely hamper the H1B shops that work these guys 70 or more hours a week, and also any Americans that happen to stumble in there. People don't understand that this is severely cutting into the entry incentives for American STEM graduates.

[wally_bert]

I’m one of 4, soon to be 5 in MIS out in the factory in the woods.

I guess the new addition will be an American like the rest of us. Sometime in the next few days I’ll have a name and user account to create.

[Reno89519]

Kill H1B and send them all home. Best move ever!!!

[bobcat62]

All the gooberment needs to do is eliminate these visas & send the visa holders home on the first tramp steamer heading out of ‘Dodge.

[Dogbert41]

But the Tech Billionaires need these to be Billionaires!

[CodeToad]

The H-1B count should be cut to ZERO.

No one needs them. NO one.

[lone star annie]

Try getting a job in a hospital. My daughter can only get part-time lab work due to Kenyans, ME and people from India. These are good jobs that being taken by H1Bs too.

[Patty]

H1B guys at my Fortune 100 company, beside allowing the company to avoid paying a fair wage, find work that can be moved off-shore where workers are paid even less. This is going to be interesting to watch.

[imardmd1]

Why “gun sights”? Going to shoot someone?

[1066AD]

I worked with H-1B visa holders, they weren’t any better than anyone else that could’ve been hired off the street in most large cities.

[HamiltonJay]

WINNING!

Honestly the H1B program is so wholesale abused I think it just needs repealed in its entirety, but these are certainly good moves.

[WMarshal]

Amen to that!

I have Already told a lot of my clients the past few years that if India and China enter into a full-scale war then that very day I will triple my consulting rate. The fist thing to get cut will be satellite communications and undersea data cables. There will be no offshoring work and all data enters in either China or India will be unavailable to US based companies and offices. It will be an IT professional sellers market.

[central_va]

Indian IT companies generate some $65 billion worth of business in the US and cutting off that spigot will mean the likes of GE, Boeing, and Cisco suddenly being unable to sell their turbines, planes, and routers in one of the world's fastest-growing economies.

This is pure globalist scare tactics. DO NOT BELIEVE THIS FOR A SECOND.

Will the H-1B threat be lifted from over the head of all US born IT workers? God I hope so.

President Trump is a blessing from God IMO.

This will be a huge win.

[central_va]

The bill if passed would also empower the Department of Labor to actively patrol the visa landscape by being able to investigate and audit firms from a compliance standpoint and probe for abuse or fraud.

The take away here is that right now nobody in the Federal Govt. is enforcing the rules. Rule which are already skewed against Americans.

[DoodleDawg]

"Yet, despite all this action with the H-1B, observers are not convinced that Trump will allow the program to be severely mauled to favor American tech workers. Indian IT companies generate some $65 billion worth of business in the U.S. and cutting off that spigot will mean the likes of GE, Boeing, and Cisco suddenly being unable to sell their turbines, planes, and routers in one of the world's fastest growing economies."

Money quote.