“We won’t let this happen anymore,” Mr. Trump thundered in one stump speech about the practice, which he has deemed “outrageous” and “demeaning.”<br />This past weekend, United States Citizenship and Immigration Services announced a technical change<br />that could make it harder for entry-level programmers to receive the visas, and on Monday, the Justice Department warned that it would investigate companies that it believed had overlooked qualified American workers.<br />For the last few years, the federal government has been so overwhelmed by applications<br />that it has stopped accepting them within a week of opening day, hence the line of trucks trying to deliver H-1B applications before the doors close on the program for another year.<br />In a statement, the National Association of Software<br />and Services Companies, the main trade group for India’s outsourcing industry, said, “The H-1B visa system exists specifically because the U. S. has a persistent shortage of high-skilled I. T.<br />The group said that its members follow all the program’s rules, and that the change would have little impact.<br />“If we can’t fill them, our innovation suffers.”<br />Several bipartisan bills pending in the Senate and the House seek to make companies<br />give more priority to American workers before they fill jobs with H-1B visas.
