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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As Usual Many Bills by Republicans.

not a SINGLE Democrat will support.

USCIS announced on March 31 that the H-1B cap had filled again for fiscal year 2027 – the first selection cycle conducted under the $100,000 supplemental fee imposed last September. Selections came in only about 11 percent below the prior year, even as overseas applications collapsed. The fee shifted who pays for new H-1B workers; it did not meaningfully reduce how many enter the U.S. workforce. Employers simply pivoted to in-country pipelines – F-1 students changing status to H-1B, employer-change petitions, and cap-exempt categories – none of which the fee touches.

Vice President JD Vance recently told students that big tech companies exploit the H-1B program, that surplus immigration is keeping families from being able to afford homes, and that the only durable fix is legislation: “we need Congress to codify this stuff.” Vance specifically asked his audience to press Senate candidates on whether they would cosponsor legislation to eliminate the program. His underlying point – that executive action alone cannot make these reforms stick – is exactly right.

The labor-market data backs him up. Oracle and Amazon each laid off roughly 30,000 workers earlier this year while filing thousands of fresh H-1B petitions. Q1 2026 tech-sector layoffs ran 40 percent above the same quarter last year. Yet the H-1B cap continues to fill on schedule, because the cap itself is riddled with loopholes that the executive branch cannot close.

Two complementary bills now pending would deliver what executive action cannot.

[i]In the House, Rep. Eli Crane's End H-1B Visa Abuse Act (H.R. 8443) pauses new H-1B issuance for three years, then permanently cuts the cap to 25,000 and imposes a real labor-market test on every petition. [/i]

[u]In the Senate, Sen. Tom Cotton's Visa Cap Enforcement Act (S. 2941) closes the loopholes that let hundreds of thousands of additional foreign workers slip past the 65,000 statutory cap each year. Together, they address both the size of the program and the loopholes that inflate it well beyond what Congress originally authorized.[/u]

[b]Send a message to your U.S. Representative urging him/her to support and pass H.R. 8443, the End H-1B Visa Abuse Act, and to your U.S. Senators urging them to support and pass S. 2941, the Visa Cap Enforcement Act.[/b]
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Our Children depend on our generation STOPPING the replacement of US workers with cheap foreign labor, all to make rich people richer on the backs on US workers. [/quote]

We are screwing over future generations of  Americans just for the sake of some short term profits.[/quote]

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