WASHINGTON (WCAX) – Senator Bernie Sanders is sounding the alarm about a guest worker visa program.
The Vermont senator says corporations have been using the H-1B guest worker program to pay people less for jobs previously held by Americans.
The H-1B program is designed to hire “non-immigrant aliens” for specialty jobs, according to the Department of Labor.
Sanders says between 2022 and 2023, the top 30 corporations using the program laid off 85,000 American workers and hired over 34,000 new H-1B guest workers.
Sanders says it’s a way for companies to pay less for labor by hiring guest workers over American workers.