Donald Trump came into office promising a restrictive new approach to immigration and there has been little question about his intention to follow through—with one seeming exception. Despite its enthusiastic rhetoric about the H-1B program, which provides temporary visas to high-skilled workers, the administration failed to make significant changes in time to impact the program’s annual lottery this April, leaving some who had anticipated action fuming.
It has also declined to take up any of the legislative proposals for H-1B overhaul.
But a crackdown has been in the works, albeit more quietly. Starting this summer, employers began noticing that U.S. ...