H1-B visa and the need for reform
&quot;Recently, Obama administration also passed a directive to allow the spouses of H1-B visa to apply for employment authorization (or the ability to work at any place).  This is a great move as it again encourages more talented people, who are married, to come to US...&quot;<p>This appears to be a &quot;back door&quot; to displace Americans from STEM jobs and going around the H1-B Visa program requirements and employment limits.<p>Immigrants should only be able to work STEM jobs in the US if there is absolutely nobody trained to do that job in the US which is the intent of H1-B.  As it stands, it is a way for tech firms to depress wage rates and to displace Americans from jobs.<p>President Obama was serving elites that want to depress wage rates of American STEM workers.<p>As you might recall, there was recently a legal judgment against Apple, Google, .... for colliding to not try to hire each other&#x27;s employees.<p>I hope the Trump administration clamps down on all of these ways that try to keep American STEM workers from receiving their fare wages.