This is straight out of Sessions’s playbook.
The fine print includes this key point: Companies hiring the “highly skilled workers” would have to pay at least what their American employees in the same jobs, made.
Thus, decreasing the incentive for foreign born workers to even be hired by companies that don’t want to pay going rates.
This also takes the power away from special-interest groups who pay to influence our legislators who enable them to hire cheap foreign STEM employees.
It gives our American graduates with STEM degrees, the advantage b/c they’d not have to compete for jobs being given to less-qualified & cheaper-paid foreigners.
They already have to pay $15-$20k all in to get the H-1B worker on board, then the worker can take his H1-B to another company the next day.