Because all of a sudden you had folks who were coming here from other countries that were taking advantage of this program, getting paid much less than American workers for doing the same thing, which was driving down wage numbers. But This program [H1B visa] was meant to be for the cream of the crop that we could not find in the US. and it has really morphed into something that it was not what it was meant for. It's lowered wages that we are, lowered the number of hirings. (08:39–08:54)
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Asserts that the H1B visa program was intended for highly skilled workers not available in the US.
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