Expert: H-1B visa restrictions harm US economy By LIA ZHU in San Francisco | China Daily Global | Updated: 2021-07-19 09:37 FILE PHOTO: The People s Republic of China flag and the US flag fly on a lamp post along Pennsylvania Avenue near the US Capitol in Washington. [Photo/Agencies]
The Trump-era hostility toward the H-1B visa program that allows US companies to hire foreign high-skilled workers is xenophobic and undermining the country s innovation economy, said a Silicon Valley expert.
The Trump administration took a series of measures to crack down on the H-1B program, though technology industry leaders said they rely on the program to recruit for positions that do not have a deep applicant pool among US citizens.
There are millions fewer jobs in the United States than there were at the start of the pandemic, and data released Friday showed an unexpected slowdown in hiring. In a speech to a joint session of Congress last month, President Joe Biden said a priority of his economic-rescue plan was to create “good-paying jobs that can’t be outsourced.”
Also last month, Madhur Parashar moved to Vancouver, British Columbia and took with him his job as a product manager at a company based in Columbus, Ohio. After receiving a master’s degree from Rochester University, Parashar, who emigrated from India, had worked in the United States on an H-1B visa for almost 11 years.
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