US President Donald Trump signed an executive order on the H-1B visa program that would tighten rules that award visas to skilled foreign workers and directs the federal government to enforce rules that bar foreign contractors from bidding on federal projects.
The order is a first effort to promote a “Buy American, Hire American” agenda, a key promise Trump made during the campaign.
Trump said that the order “declares that the policy of our government is to aggressively promote and use American-made goods and to ensure that American labor is hired to do the job.”
"With this action, we are sending a powerful signal to the world: We're going to defend our workers, protect our jobs and finally put America first," Reuters cited Trump as saying.
