US lawmakers slam H-1B visa programme

Washington

“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 Congressional hearing. Sessions refuted the claims of many US firms about shortage of skilled workers. “The data shows that there is no shortage of highly qualified working American professionals, nor is there a shortage of American STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) college graduates every year,” he said. Democratic Senator Dick Durbin alleged that the top recipients of H-1B visas are foreign outsourcing firmswhich use loopholes in the law to disqualify qualified American workers and offshore American jobs.