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Countries to fill the same job for sometimes less pay. this will stop. american workers have long called for reforms to end these visa abusers. today their calls are being answered for the first time. that includes taking the first steps to set in motion a long overdue reform of h 1 b visas. right now h 1 b visas are awarded in a totally random lotte lottery. thats wrong. instead they should be given to the most skill and highest paid applicants and never be used to replace americans. no one can...

This year there was a record number of people applying. they were concerned that the trump administration was going to end or alter the program in a way that was negatively impactful. he is playing to his base and thats more important to him. his critics are saying he is doing this because they lost health care and had to reverse on china and other issues. they have done these aggressive things and syria. the cruise missile attacks. he is here doing this for his base to drive home that message m...

>> on that note, i want to turn to julia. you wrote in 2015 one of the pieces about dizzy me and something they did that got a lot of attention. they hired new workers and got rid of people and asked them to train the new workers who were taking over jobs in in many cases the new ones came from india from a company. there have been other companies that have done the same thing. does it make sense to reform the system? >> absolutely. this is a program that could be useful to some american tech co...

In some cases you see what happened to disney which is the americans have to sit next to the indian worker and train that worker to do the job as a condition of their separation agreement. this kind of displementf american workers has been happening this this program. among other things t makes it difficult for american tech companies that do need certain very highly skilled people to get the visas. >> thats what i was going to pick up on. ron insan a that was the point of the program in the fir...

Individuals to move the economy forward. we shouldnt be looking at going backwards and restricting the growth of the labor force in the united states which is integral to the growth of the economy. this is a small percentage of the workforce. 85,000 people a year when we are creating close to 200,000 jobs a month. this is political misdirection as opposed to economic reality. >> you wrote an article about immigration and just in the last couple of days about the administration tightening the gri...