On Election Day, working people sent a clear message: American workers must always come first. This vision for the future cannot include the current H-1B visa program, which benefits corporate elites at the expense of American workers. The recent calls for a radical extension and expansion of this modern form of indentured servitude are simply un-American.
The H-1B visa program was introduced with the goal of temporarily welcoming highly educated foreign workers to the United States to do specialized jobs — after employers make sure there are no Americans who could fill those roles themselves. That seems nice in theory. But in practice, corporations have abused the H-1B program to drive down wages for American workers and grind foreign workers to a pulp.
H-1B workers are supposed to have specialized skills that uniquely qualify them for the jobs they are hired to do, but many…
