A West Virginia congressman is fed up with popular work visas, and revealed to Fox News Digital a behind-the-scenes surge of Republican lawmakers who also support abolition of the foreign worker program."I think the H-1B visa program is a scam, and it's one that has been perpetrated on the American worker for far too long," Rep.Riley Moore, R-W.Va., said in an interview."Essentially, we shipped all our manufacturing jobs overseas and people were told to 'learn how to code,'" he continued.
"Well, now they're being replaced with the H-1B visa workers on the coding jobs as well.So when is the American worker actually going to get a win here?"Rep.
Riley Moore is leading a bill to authorize President Trump to carry out his tariff plans (Office of Rep.Riley Moore)FURY ERUPTS AS US BRAND FIRES 1,600 EMPLOYEES AFTER SECURING THOUSANDS OF FOREIGN WORKER VISASH-1B visas are billed as temporary work authorizations for "high-skilled" foreign workers who are qualified to do jobs that American workers do not have the skills to do.
But the companies that use them are not required to prove that they couldn't find a qualified American to do the same job, raising criticism among those who want to stop outsourcing jobs to foreign workers.Companies who use the most H-1B visas include Amazon, IT consulting firm Cognizant, Infosys, IBM and Microsoft.Microsoft set off a firestorm last week when its XBOX gaming division laid off 1,600 workers, despite the parent company being approved for 2,273 H-1B visas this year alone.Pontiac, Michigan, A rally outside the Oakland County government complex supports a proposal to require government contractors to use the federal E-Verify database to check the immigration status of job applicants.(Photo by: Jim West/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) (im West/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)ACTING LABOR SECRETARY SONDERLING: A FAST-TRACK WAY TO GET A JOB WITHOUT COLLEGE DEBT"We're sending all of our kids to college, trade school ...