Trump DOJ to crack down on potential abuse of foreign-worker visa program

By Fred Lucas, The Daily Signal

The Trump administration will be cracking down on companies that discriminate against American citizens by hiring less costly foreign workers for highly skilled jobs, a situation happening frequently in the tech industry.

Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division Harmeet Dhillon said the Justice Department is focusing on H-1B visas.

H-1B visas are given to certain foreign workers so they can work in the U.S. in specialty occupations that usually require a college degree. The Department of Labor places a cap of 85,000 such visas per year, but sometimes, exemptions are made.

“Before the holiday weekend—Labor Day, after all—I thought it would be kind of cute to say [to my colleagues], ‘Hey, guys, we are enforcing our federal employment laws. That includes the Civil Rights Division law that penalizes employers for putting foreign workers over American workers,'” Dhillon said Tuesday at the National Conservatism Conference.