A bipartisan bill before the U.S. Congress would ban multinational corporations from replacing American workers with foreign workers through the H-1B visa program.

A bipartisan bill authored by Rep. Bill Pascrell (D-NJ), Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL), Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA), Rep. Dave Brat (R-VA), and Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ) would make H-1B visa rules stricter and stop the practice that replaces millions of Americans by foreign workers in high-paying U.S. jobs.

The Congressmen and Senator sent a letter to President Donald Trump’s administration, requesting that he get behind the bipartisan plan.

Trump has been highly critical of the program, where every year, more than 100,000 foreign workers are brought to the U.S. on the H-1B visa and are allowed to stay for up to six years. That number has ballooned to potentially hundreds of thousands each year, as universities and non-profits are exempt from the cap. In the process, Americans are often replaced after being forced to train their foreign replacements.

According to the bipartisan letter sent to Trump, the plan would:

  1. The locally-determined prevailing wage level for the occupational classification in the area of employment;
  2. The median wage for all workers in the occupational classification in the area of employment; and
  3. The median wage for skill level 2 in the occupational classification found in the most recent OES survey.

Pro-American worker attorney Sara Blackwell said that while she’s grateful that there is a bipartisan plan to ban multinational corporations from replacing Americans with foreigners, the effort should go further.

Blackwell told Breitbart Texas that outsourcing firms that are contracted by corporations to outsource American jobs to foreign workers should also be banned from using their leverage to replace U.S. workers with H-1B foreigners.

“I think what they need to have in this legislation is that all the subcontractors are on the hook as well,” Blackwell said. “They can’t miss the business model.”

Blackwell also said the wage requirements in the legislation – where foreign workers would have to be paid a comparable wage to the area where the job is located – should be even tougher.

“If these [foreign] workers are that much more qualified, they should be required to get double the pay of the Americans,” Blackwell said. “Personally, I think the minimum should be $150,000 minimum.”

John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart Texas. Follow him on Twitter at @JxhnBinder