H-1B visa suspended: US Congressmen urge Donald Trump to revoke move

Top American lawmakers have urged President Donald Trump to revoke temporary suspension of H-1B and or n-immigrant visas.

“I’m deeply disappointed by President Trump’s misguided order to suspend se key work visa programmes. I urge him to reverse this decision to help ensure our health care system and broer ecomy are rey to combat next phase of (coronavirus) pandemic and to create jobs we need for our ecomic recovery,” Indian American Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi said.

H-1B programme in particular plays a crucial role in dressing dangerous short of health care professionals while also providing or key sectors of our ecomy with talent from around world to t only fill jobs, but create new ones, he said.

“Suspending this programme will only weaken our ecomy and our health care workforce at a time when need to strengn both is as clear as ever,” Krishnamoorthi said.

This is t right approach, said Senator Democratic Whip Dick Durbin and Congressmen Bill Pascrell and Ro Khanna after Trump’s decision to bar H-1B and or work visas through end of year.

“We need to mend H-1B programme, t end it. Inste of suspending H-1B visas, Trump ministration should ask Congress to pass H-1B and L-1 Visa Reform Act of 2020, which reforms H-1B program with a scalpel, t a sledgehammer,” three top American lawmakers said.

y have introduced a bipartisan legislation, which y said would protect American workers and end abuse of H-1B programme to outsource American jobs and exploit workers, while ensuring employers could still hire talented immigrant workers when qualified American is available to do job. Congresswoman Donna E Shalala alleged that Trump is w attacking American businesses - and jeopardising ecomic recovery - in service of xephobia. “America will be poorer and less competitive because of it,” she said.

“This Executive Order is yet ar example of President Trump using coronavirus pandemic to vance a hateful and extreme anti-immigrant nda,” said Congresswoman Chellie Pingree.

“re's question that employers should hire out of work Americans whenever possible, but Maine businesses have said repeatedly y need H-2B, J-1, L-1 visa holders to operate and continue to reopen... This ban will make our ecomic recovery more difficult,” she said.