Top US legislators on Friday slammed the popular H-1B visa programme and demanded strict action against companies abusing it to replace Americans with low-paid foreign workers, including from India.
“The sad reality is that not only is there not a shortage of exceptionally qualified US workers but across the country thousands of US workers are being replaced by foreign labour,” Senator Jeff Sessions, chairman of the Senate Subcommittee on Immigration and The National Interest, said during a Congres-sional hearing.
Sessions refuted the claims of many US companies about shor-tage of skilled workers in the US and thus the need to bring in qualified foreign workers from India.
“The data shows that there is no shortage of highly qualified working American professionals, nor is there a shortage of American STEM (Science, Techn-ology, Engineering and Math) college graduates every year,” he said.
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