Trump won’t allow H1B Visa Holders to replace US Workers

US President Donald Trump has stated he would not allow Americans to be replaced by foreign workers, in an apparent reference to cases such as that of Disney World and other American companies wherein people hired on H-1B visas, encompassing Indians, displaced US workers. The Indian IT sector might be a victim to it.

Donald Trump told thousands of his supporters in Iowa on Thursday as he pointed out to the cases of Disney world and other US companies that they would fight to protect every last American life. Mr. Trump vowed amidst cheers and applause from the audience that during the campaign he had also spent time with American workers who were laid off and forced to train. He added that the foreign workers brought in to replace them and that they would not let this happen anymore.

Disney World and 2 outsourcing companies have been slapped with a federal lawsuit by 2 of its former technology staff, alleging that they conspired to displace American workers with cheaper foreign labour brought to the US on H-1B visas, mostly from India.

The 2 employees Leo Perrero and Dena Moore were among 250 Disney tech workers laid off from their jobs at Walt Disney World in Orlando in January 2015. They have also dragged 2 IT companies HCL Inc and Cognizent Technologies into this class action lawsuit.

Mr Trump reiterated that on immigration he would build the wall along the Mexico border. He said that he would put an end to illegal immigration and stop the drugs from pouring into their country, the drugs were pouring into their country, poisoning their youth and plenty of other people, he said.

Trump added that the administration will stop the violence that is spilling across their border.

Background – Fearing tighter US Visa Regime, Indian IT Firms like Infosys, TCS rush to Hire, Acquire:

Anticipating a more protectionist US technology visa programme under a Donald Trump administration, India’s 150 billion-dollar IT services sector are planning to speed up acquisitions in the United States and recruit more heavily from college campuses there. Indian companies including Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), Infosys and Wipro have long used H1-B skilled worker visas to fly computer engineers to the United States, their biggest overseas market, temporarily to service clients.

Staff from those 3 companies accounted for around 86,000 new H1-B workers in 2005-14. The US currently issues close to that number of H1-B visas each year.