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Trump signs decree drastically restricting the hiring of foreign workers

The White House emphasizes that it will not tolerate the replacement of Americans with cheap foreign labor, writes "Voice of America".

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US President Donald Trump on Monday, August 3, signed a priority hiring order for Americans to prevent foreign workers from replacing American workers. As highlighted in a White House statement, the Trump administration "will not tolerate firing hardworking Americans in pursuit of cheap foreign labor."

“We believe that jobs should be offered to Americans first,” the president said.

“Today I am signing an executive order to ensure that the federal government lives by a very simple rule: Hire Americans,” Donald Trump said.

The decree requires federal agencies to give preference to Americans in the distribution of lucrative federal contracts.

“It would be unfair for federal employers to replace qualified Americans with workers from other countries,” the White House said in a statement.

Photo: twitter.com/WHRapidResponse

By presidential decree, all federal agencies will be required to undergo internal scrutiny to ensure that only US citizens are appointed to competitive positions.

The decree also aims to tackle outsourcing, especially in the face of a pandemic in which millions of Americans lost their jobs.

According to a Trump administration official who asked for anonymity, the move was prompted by a June announcement by the federal energy corporation Tennessee Valley Authority that the company was firing 62 IT workers by outsourcing data and programming. Bloomberg.

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Trump called the outsourcing decision of TVA Chief Executive Jeff Lash "disastrous and heartless." Trump said that the board of directors should exclude Lyash, otherwise Trump himself will do it. He also said he would remove some of the board members, including Chairman James Thompson.

After serving the note during an event at the White House, Trump said that Lyash had called him and that the TVA chief indicated that he was “ready to change course” regarding the announced layoffs.

TVA supports Trump's executive order, Jim Hopson, a spokesman for the enterprise, said in an email statement. He also said that the functions performed by his information technology division must be performed in the United States by people who are legally allowed to work in the country. Board members "operate at the discretion of the president," and the board can still operate with the loss of one or more members, he said.

Trump's new executive order requires federal agencies to give preference to US residents and green card holders in contract positions as well as permanent positions, the official said on condition of anonymity. The order will also prompt research to determine how many federal jobs foreign visa holders hold.

“Throughout the pandemic, President Trump has kept his promise to put American workers first. As the country recovers from the impact of the pandemic, President Trump has taken steps to ensure that American workers do not have to sit on the sidelines while they are replaced by a new foreign workforce, the White House said. “To protect American jobs, President Trump has suspended the admission of new immigrants to the country under a number of visa categories.”

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In particular, the president initiated reforms to the H-1B visa program to prioritize high-paid workers and close loopholes to keep American workers from being crowded out by cheap foreign labor.

“The President of the United States today signed an executive order taking steps to prevent foreign workers from replacing American workers. Stopping fraud and abuse in the H-1B visa system and protecting American workers are Department of Labor and Administration priorities,” US Department of Labor Commissioner Eugene Scalia tweeted.

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Let us recall that in April 2017, Trump signed the Hire American Buy American decree, which pursues a similar goal. The President has repeatedly emphasized the need to create and preserve jobs in the country.

“By creating jobs, we will transform people's lives,” he said at the Economic Club of New York in November 2019.

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