Congress muddles on H-1B reform to the detriment of US workers
March 26, 2018
Dale L. Wilcox
In Geoffrey Chaucer’s classic medieval epic, “The Canterbury Tales,†the character Franklin said, “Patience is a virtue.†If there is truth to the proverbial phrase, my law firm’s been pretty virtuous.
When President Obama's Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in 2015 began handing out work-permits to the spouses of H-1B guestworkers applying to permanently immigrate, we took the agency to court. On behalf of a group of displaced and out-of-work U.S. tech workers, we claimed that the hundreds of thousands of work permits due to hit the tech-labor market as a result of the new rule (according to DHS’s own estimates), violated our plaintiffs’ labor rights, was designed to circumvent the H-1B visa-cap, and represented a corruptive hand-out to the Obama administration’s tech-industry allies. Thankfully, President Trump agreed, and when his own DHS was installed one of its first orders of business was to draft a rescission-rulemaking taking us back to the pre-2015 status quo.
http://www.irli.org/single-post/2018/03/23/The-Orange-County-Register-OC-and-cities-launch-new-steps-against-sanctuary-law
