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Comment by manuelabeledo

Then your company is cheating the system.

H1-B visas are for highly skilled workers, either holding higher education diplomas or similar qualifications. They also come with a minimum salary requirement, which for most tech companies would start at $150,000.

Any company paying their visa holders less than the required minimum salary cap, is indeed committing a crime.

Also, this move is obviously directed against tech companies. It does not make any distinction between large IT providers such as TATA, well known for their dumping tactics, and Microsoft, Google, or Apple.

I would even go further to say that, given the lack of interest in banning the entry of seasonal workers, who focus mostly on blue collar jobs, and given that the highest contribution to the rising unemployment numbers come from lower paid service and manual jobs, this is just another move to appeal to the rural, hard right wing Trump base.

As it will not impact them in any significant manner, yet it would create more uncertainty in wealthier, highly educated, urban areas.

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