countries to fill the same job for sometimes less pay. this will stop. american workers have long called for reforms to end these visa abuses and today their calls are being answered for the first time. that includes taking the first steps to set in motion a long overdo reform of h1b visas. right now they re awarded in a totally random lottery. that is wrong. instead, they should be given to the most skilled and highest paid applicants and should never, ever be used to replace americans. no one can compete with american workers when they re given a fair and level playing field which has not happened for decades. we re using every tool at our disposal to restore the american dream. in fact, when it comes the wasteful destructive job-killing
my reaction, poppy, is that i wish i could describe to you the fear and the anxiety of being an american muslim right now. this ban is completely illegal. it s unconstitutional. and as you pointed out, the main countries where the terrorist attacks have been carried out in the u.s. such as pakistan, such as saudi arabia are not even on this list. this ban achieves nothing but fear. it feeds nothing but islamophobia. it s tearing apart u.s. families as we speak. and as someone who has been through the u.s. immigration system, let me tell you, it s not a cakewalk. you are vetted for months, even years just to get a tourist visa. i went from a student visa to an h1b to a green card to now i m a u.s. citizen. and it takes years. i cannot imagine what these people are going through being turned away, having their visas deemed null and void at the border. this is not what america is about, and it s a boon to isis. so in other words let me read you hold on, jeffrey. i want you to re
you have been critical of mark zucker burke of facebook wanted to increase the number of the h1b. i was not at all critical. i m all in favor of keeping talented people here so they can go to work in silicon valley. you re in favor i m not at all critical of him. where did i read this and come up with this i don t know. you people write the stuff. well, in this case, it s not correct. as cnbc s becky quick said later the person that wrote the fstuf was donald trump because she found it on his website. mark zuckerberg s senator rubio has a goil triple h-1bs visas that would decimate women and minorities. it doesn t much sound like it on his website. so either he didn t know he wrote that or somebody wrote it in his name or he forgot or he straight up lied. marco rubio, who deflected this criticism of whether the way
around it. it s also not a substitute for a policy and never will be. we should be letting in highly educated people david: steven is saying do both. what is wrong with that? in israel, i don t think you have effective fence. on 1800-mile border we re willing to make it work. david: steve, tech geek, can we do it? 2,000-mile border, can we build it? it won t be perfect, but the technology, more patrols and the like, fencing and the like will cut it down. if you combine it with sensible work programs and the like h1b visas and like and have mexico get their act together and the economy the problem goes down enormously. david: victoria, if we could build it and it s technologically feasible, would you be in favor of it? no. one other thing, i want to point this out, in california worker goes back and forth. they re seasonal workers. you would be blocking off a chunk of our labor force that is crucial. instead of building a wall and disrupting their lives, let s give them so
president s only immigration concern. earlier today the presidentpr signed order ordering reforms to the h1b. bring in foreign workers to fill jobs that allegedly americans are not capable of doing. billionaire mark cuban is a vocal supporter of h1b. he says importing labor makes american stronger. mark cuban, thanks for joining us tonight. the president s h 1 b executive order will slow down that visa process from abroad. you ve said in past statements you think that s bad for america. how so? right. well, there is two parts to the h1b story. first, there is the hoarding w of visas, which i think is a problem. you get a lot of outsourcing companies that apply to the lottery in huge numbers and they just win a lot of visas and they use them for lower paying jobs. that she wrong. hopefully this addresses it. on the flip side, there is the other side of gettingre the most qualified applicant