Google, Microsoft, Tesla and other companies cutting jobs should not be allowed to hire on H-1B visa: Bernie Sanders

Senator Bernie Sanders introduced an amendment to the Laken Riley Act aimed at reforming the H-1B visa program, arguing it primarily serves to replace American workers with lower-paid foreign guest workers. He contends these workers are often exploited, akin to indentured servants. “The main function of the H-1B programme is not to hire ‘the best and the brightest’ but rather to replace good-paying American jobs with hundreds of thousands of lower-paid guest workers from abroad who are often treated as indentured servants. The cheaper it is to hire guest workers, the more money the multi-billionaire owners of large corporations make,” Sanders, 83, said on the Senate floor earlier this week.