Trump nuked the expedited H-1B option for now.

Good.

The H-1B visa is a scam that allow firms to shortchange American workers, is nearly indentured servitude* for the workers involved, and lowers wages in general. The CNN article is full of lies, by the way.

While the visas are used to fill the US skills gap….

There is no US skills gap. There is a gap between the wage that firms wish to pay and what highly skilled workers will accept. That is the gap. Again, I repeat: no matter what you read in the press, there is no skills gap in IT, period.

What happens is the going rate for an SAP principal (if you don’t know what this is, don’t worry about it) salary is about $150,000 a year (as it should be). However, firms only want to pay $80,000 a year for this role — so they bring in a barely-capable H-1B visa-holder in to do the job.

You get the picture. Trump should eliminate the H-1B program altogether, in my opinion. It’s anti-labor and exploitative in two different respects.

*An H-1B visa holder is not a regular worker; they cannot leave their present firm unless another firm sponsors them, and their contract might not permit this anyway. They are basically stuck where hired.