Say what you will about Trump's other policies, but it's high time someone took an ax to the H-1B program. The level of abuse I've witnessed from it over the years is heinous; foreign workers essentially working as indentured servants, with the only beneficiaries being corporations using their cheap labor and the foreign consultancy firms that farm them out.
I'll be interested to see what changes get made to the program to move it back towards its intended purpose.
of course the bad behavior stops immediately when they get a nice little letter with an american law firm's name at the top of it.
they're scumbags.
Unintended consequences caused by government regulation.
For the former, the big names are well versed in churning out billable hours regardless of actual work performed. The 11-12 hour time difference can sometimes be a boon, but more often than not leads to both your remote and local employees being unhappy. Local employees because they're asked to stay late or come in early, and remote employees because access to transit is more difficult if only US business hours are an option.
He's just getting started. I'm sure we'll see some doozies; hopefully nothing tragic. But let's not pretend that everything Trump does or will do is stupid or evil, and give him credit when appropriate.
The bills were or will be introduced by the following (from [1]):
1) Republican from Iowa, Democrat from Illinois
2) Republican from California
3) Democrat from California
I believe the parent may have cherry-picked, but is not completely incorrect.
[1] http://money.cnn.com/2017/01/21/technology/h1b-reform-bill-g...
I doubt Trump can use executive order to change the H1B system like he did for his immigration order. If he does, he can expect a constitutional crisis soon.