H1-B visa should be used for highly paid talent to create American jobs: Trump

US President Donald Trump on Monday signed a new Executive Order on aligning federal contracting and hiring practices with the “interest of American workers”. It called for prohibiting American employers from using H-1B workers to displace Americans in outsourcing contracts.

“Today I’m signing an executive order to ensure that the federal government lives by a very simple rule: Hire American. We’ve been doing it at a level that hasn’t been done maybe ever,” President Trump said.

Hire Americans

This ensures that US federal agencies will prioritise hiring Americans rather than signing on foreign workers majority of those who are on H-1B visas.