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The Trump administration justified its new H1-B policy by highlighting the growing unemployment among US citizens due to the “abuse” under this visa that allows immigrant workers
The White House said the share of IT workers with H-1B visas has risen from 32% in FY 2003 to more than 65% in recent years. (Image for representation: IMAGEN 4 ENGINE)
The Trump administration has justified its H1-B visa move by issuing a “fact sheet” in which it claimed that US companies were firing Americans and replacing them with “lower-paid foreign labour”.
The White House justified President Donald Trump’s move to impose an annual fee of $100,000 on H-1B visa applications by highlighting the growing unemployment among US citizens due to the H-1B visas “abuse”.
It said the share of IT workers with H-1B visas has risen from 32 percent in FY 2003 to more than 65 percent in recent years. American companies are replacing US workers with H-1B workers, it added.
“One company was approved for 5,189 H-1B workers in FY 2025, while laying off roughly 16,000 US employees this year. Another company was approved for 1,698 H-1B workers in FY 2025, yet announced it was laying off 2,400 US workers in Oregon in July. A third company has reduced its US workforce by 27,000 since 2022 while receiving 25,075 H-1B approvals. Yet another company reportedly cut 1,000 American jobs in February despite receiving 1,137 H-1B approvals for FY 2025,” stated the fact sheet issued by the White House.
The White House further stated that this move is taken to put American workers first, highlighting Trump’s efforts to bring employment back to the US workers.
“Unemployment among recent computer science graduates has reached 6.1% and 7.5% for computer engineering graduates – more than double the rates for biology or art history majors. The number of foreign STEM workers in the United States has more than doubled between 2000 and 2019, while overall STEM employment only increased 44.5 per cent during that time,” it said.
It said the voters gave President Donald Trump a “resounding mandate to put American workers first, and he has worked every day to deliver on that commitment”.
“President Trump has aggressively and successfully negotiated new trade deals to bring manufacturing jobs back home and attract new investments to the US,” the fact sheet said. “Since President Trump returned to office, all employment gains have gone to American-born workers – unlike last year during the same period under President Biden, when all employment gains went to foreign-born workers.”
This move has sparked concerns about its effects on Indian tech professionals and remittances, with 71 to 72 percent of H-1B visas going to Indians. In response to Trump’s move, the Centre has said the full implications of the US decision to impose a $100,000 annual fee on H-1B visa applications are being studied by all concerned, including the Indian industry, and that the measure is likely to have humanitarian consequences by way of the disruption caused for families.
“The government has seen reports related to the proposed restrictions on the US H1B visa programme. The full implications of the measure are being studied by all concerned, including by Indian industry, which has already put out an initial analysis clarifying some perceptions related to the H1B programme,” ministry of external affairs (MEA) spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal said in a statement on restrictions to the US H1B visa programme. “Industry in both India and the US has a stake in innovation and creativity and can be expected to consult on the best path forward.”
(With ANI inputs)
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