Originally Posted by
Judy
"certainty" = bad for employers
The current uncertainty in the move from an H1B visa to a green card allows employers to exploit these workers while discriminating against American Workers for years and years and years, even decades.
As soon as the H1B worker gets their green card, they're free from the limbo that employers exploit which depresses wages.
Also when the H1B worker moves to the green card, the employers not only no longer have exploitation wages of the workers which hurts American Workers, they no longer have the tax incentives which is unfair to taxpayers and American Workers who have to pay taxes. These H1B workers are also exempt from overtime. No one ever talks about that.
Trump is going to try to expedite and simplify the move from the H1B visa to a green card, something they are already entitled to under current US law, but which in practice, drags out for 10 to 12 years or more because they wait in line. When he makes it easier and quicker to move to a green card, this hurts the employer and discourages use of the program.
So far, there are not enough votes in Congress to eliminate the H1B program so what Trump is doing is trying to make it as hard, difficult, costly, cumbersome and unattractive to employers as possible through new regulations so they stop using it. When employers stop using it, it's over, because it's the employers who actually make the applications for H1B workers.