“By regulatory movement standards, they are flying — they’re moving very fast, and we still haven’t hit any meaningful roadblocks,” the official told Breitbart News.
The official declined to offer any details but said, “I am prepared to say that the president’s goals as expressed in June are still on track, at the same breadth and depth that he presented in June.”
“It’s a good thing that Trump wants to have this regulation out and implemented before the election,” responded Kevin Lynn, founder of U.S. Tech Workers.
“They want to show that they are keeping their 2016 promise,” Lynn added. “Trump should go to Philadelphia and hold a rally in front of the Vanguard Group’s building and let the 1,300 workers who are being outsourced to an Indian [H-1B] firm know that this is not going to happen anymore.”
The American Workers Coalition also applauded the promised changes:
AmWorkCo is thrilled that the DHS H-1B reform will hopefully include a tighter definition for a specialty occupation and a significantly tighter definition for what constitutes an “employer” so that the shadow employment practices [H-1b gig-workers] can be curtailed and American citizens can once again get high-paying professions.
The regulations have been bitterly opposed by Fortune 500 companies. Those companies use the outsourcing program to cut their labor costs and to minimize the clout of American professionals in their firms and technologies.
Many American professionals are being pushed out of jobs by the many CEOs who prefer to hire from the population of at least 600,000 resident H-1B workers, and the annual inflow of 100,000 new H-1Bs. “The productive class of this country has never been more job-insecure — they know what is threatening them,” said Lynn…
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