'Unfortunately, the H-1B program has become...': Republican lawmaker from Georgia writes to Trump administration, says his own district is a visa abuse hotspot

Rep Rich McCormick says his district is a suspected H-1B hotspot. Rep Rich McCormick, a Republican from Georgia, has written to the Trump administration that his district, Georgia's 7th Congressional district, has become a suspected hotspot of H-1B visa fraud and that the administration should investigate. He said he would act as an interlocutor to help enable cooperation with state-level agencies and law enforcement. "Established by the Immigration Act of 1990, the purpose of the H-1B program is to allow American businesses to temporarily bring in foreign citizens to fill key, high-skill employment positions when the domestic workforce demonstrably cannot provide the necessary labor," McCormick wrote."Unfortunately, the H-1B program has become the subject of rampant fraud and abuse for the nefarious purposes of obtaining labor that bad actors can exploit below-market-rate wages and abusive work conditions given H-1B holders’ dependence on retaining their employment in order to avoid removal back to their country of origin. On aggregate, this trend interferes in the labor market by undercutting wages and increasing job competition for American jobseekers, particularly recent colleg...