Another way Senator Rubio is hurting American workers

Here is another way Senator Rubio is supporting crony capitalism to the detriment of American workers. From the American Interest: He supports expansion of the H1-B visa program that is facilitating the loss of jobs for American workers, particularly in the IT sector.

There are many reasons to be supportive of legal U.S. immigration. But as we’ve written before, the H1-B is an ugly, crony-ist measure. It brings none of the benefits to the nation of legal immigration, while carrying many of the costs. Lawmakers may be tempted to look to it as a way to work-around a broken immigration system—but evidence suggests that it makes many problems worse: layoffs, lowered wages, and ultimately, offshoring (as well as unknown amount of visa-overstays.) Passing an expansion of it right now would be sure to exacerbate immigration tensions, to little gain—unless you own a business that uses H1-B workers.

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