The Trump administration on Tuesday announced sweeping rule changes to the controversial H-1B guest worker program -- changes that the administration says will protect American wages, crack down on abuse and impact more than a third of the tens of thousands of applications filed each year. President Trump in June published a presidential proclamation banning new H-1B petitions, and this rule would be in place before that ended. Meanwhile those calling for lower levels of immigration overall reacted with delight to the announcement, hailing it as a significant win for American workers. “While the current unemployment crisis triggered these regulatory reforms to the H-1B program, we expect that these changes will be long-lasting,” he said. “Once these protections for American workers are firmly in place, it will be very difficult for any future administration to reinstate the ability of employers to deny jobs and undermine the wages of U.S. workers.”

Source: Fox News October 06, 2020 21:22 UTC