We only want the best: H1B, green card to be reformed, says US Senator

H-1B work visa and employment- based green card categories -- very popular among Indian-Americans -- are likely to be reformed to attract the best and the brightest from across the world, a top American Senator close to President Donald Trump said today.

Republican Senator from Arkansas Tom Cotton, who met Trump yesterday, said that the current system does not bring in the brightest and the best from across the world. So there is need to reform it and this is what Trump is planning to do.

"I think, on the H-1B temporary visa but also the permanent green cards, like EB1, EB2, the President wants to get the very best people from around the world. Often those programs are implemented in a way that is not consistent with their purposes," Cotton told MSNBC.

"They don't bring in PhDs and computer scientists. They bring in mid-level and they replace midlevel data management workers. That's why you get controversies like people losing their jobs at companies like Disney and Southern California Edison that were just replaced by foreign workers who weren't necessarily high skilled," Cotton explained.

"So he (Trump) would like to see reforms to those programs that I would," said Cotton, who is also a member of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.

"It's really an empirical question where we do have gaps in our economy. But I will say this, there is no job that an American won't do. Americans, with the right pay, will do any job. That's just the facts of the matter," he noted.
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