Donald Trump Signs Executive Order Curbing H-1B Outsourcing

Article CAIRCO note: 
Why was this not signed 3 years ago?
Article publisher: 
Breitbart
Article date: 
3 August 2020
Article category: 
National News
Medium
Article Body: 
President Donald Trump signed an executive order Monday which curbs the H-1B outsourcing of jobs at government agencies, including the government-controlled Tennessee Valley Authority.
 
“We believe jobs must be offered to American workers first,” Trump told attendees at a signing event in the White House.
 
Staffing companies have used the H-1B program to fill roughly 18,000 jobs in government agencies with foreign contract-workers....
 
Fortune 500 companies and their networks of U.S. and Indian-owned subcontractors and sub-subcontractor have used the H-1B program to outsource millions of college-graduate jobs over the last 20 years.
 
Currently, Fortune 500 companies keep at least 1.3 million foreign contract-workers in jobs needed by U.S. graduates, including at least 600,000 H-1B workers. This personnel policy is not an “abuse” of the law because the law was carefully drafted to help companies sideline American workers....
 
Many executives prefer hiring contract workers because they are compliant and quiet compared to U.S. professionals who can argue with executives and switch jobs.
 
Many of the contract workers are imported for about a year, so they can learn how to do the job from an office in India....