Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis denounced Congress’s H-1B visa program for undercutting white-collar wages and displacing American graduates.
In a fast-paced August 14 interview with CNBC, DeSantis was asked: You get a lot of questions about immigration, particularly at the border. I know you’ve covered that extensively in an interview recently with my colleague … at MSNBC. So I’ll ask about H-1B visas. Would you support allowing more H-1B visa immigration to the United States? I’m sure a lot of counties, say like rural Florida. would love to have a qualified doctor, no matter where that doctor is from.
DeSantis answered: Yeah, but the problem is the way that has been implemented. They will bring in people — in technology — from other countries who work for lower rates than what Americans worked for. And so I don’t support undercutting American wages, and the H-1B program has been used to do that.
