“My view is the H-1B program is completely broken, and I’d be very supportive of just eliminating it,” he said.
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On Thursday, Vice President JD Vance said he would support liquidating the H-1B visa program, calling it “completely broken” and inculpating employers from using it to swap American workers with cheaper foreign labor.
“My view is the H-1B program is completely broken, and I’d be very supportive of just eliminating it,” Vance said. “But while we have it, what we have to do is protect American workers. So I understand people are annoyed. What I would say is tell your congressman to fix this program.”
Vance, during an interview with influencer Jack Posobiec aboard Air Force Two, said the program has been “totally taken advantage of,” not only by technology firms but also by accounting companies and other employers.
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“If you want to say, ‘I’d like to bring a genius into the United States of America,’ you can have that conversation,” Vance said. “But if you’re going to bring in an accountant making $45,000 a year to replace an accountant who’s an American making $60,000 a year, that’s not you using the program to bring in a genius.”
“That’s you destroying American jobs and defrauding the American people,” he added.
The issue, Vance said, is the divisive H-1B program that permits U.S. employers to temporarily employ foreign laborers in specialty jobs; the problem has become a political crossroads in recent years over the scope of legal immigration. Vance defended the administration’s efforts to curb what it describes as abuse, while accusing Congress of failing to act.
“Congress was not going to reform the H-1B program because unfortunately a lot of people were bought by the cheap labor lobby,” he told Posobiec. “Meanwhile, we in the Trump administration are trying to at least make it less fraudulent.”
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