Rep. Chip Roy Proposes Bill to Reform H-1B Visa Program

Republican Chip Roy, Texas Rep, has brought a new bill to end the H-1B visa abuses, calling it the American White-Collar Worker Jobs Act. "It’s time to end this lottery-based pipeline and replace it with a system that prioritizes merit, enforces real wage standards, and puts America’s white-collar workers first," Chip Roy said. This adds to the list of several other similar bills that Republican politicians brought to control the H-1B visa system and are far from being passed and implemented. Daily Caller reported that Chip Roy's bill would require a labor market test to determine if employers made a good faith effort to hire local workers before hiring H-1B visa holders. The Department of Labor and the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services. “For its nearly forty-year history, the H1-B visa has been abused, allowing employers to routinely sideline American STEM workers in favor of cheap foreign labor, while masking layoffs and wage suppression as ‘shortages,'” Roy told the Caller. “It’s time to end this lottery-based pipeline and replace it with a system that prioritizes merit, enforces real wage standards, and puts America’s white-collar workers first,” Roy said.

Chip Roy's bill pushes for ending OPT

While Roy's bill does not seek to end H-1B, he is all for ending Optional Practical Training, which has served as a pipeline for college students to enter the job market. Roy wants to abolish the OPT program. Recently, the US authorities, including US Immigration and Customs Enforcement and US Citizenship and Immigration Services, announced investigations into alleged OPT-related fraud. Officials stated they identified more than 10,000 students linked to employers they considered suspicious, with investigators reporting cases involving empty offices, shell companies, and unverifiable employment claims.