Ahead of Senate's H-1B hearing, a look at the early warnings
In 1995, then U.S. Labor Secretary Robert Reich warned Congress about the H-1B program. Stories of IT workers training foreign replacements were already emerging, even though the visa program was just about five years old.
The H-1B program has an "unknowably large potential," Reich told a Senate committee some 20 years ago, to inflict "real competitive harm on skilled U.S workers."
Reich's efforts changed nothing. Three years after he testified, in 1998, Congress raised the H-1B cap.
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