‘The Big Weekend Show’ co-hosts discuss the impact illegal immigration has on the U.S. economy and President Trump’s economic policies. 

I did my first H-1B visa interview 25 years ago as a consular officer in India, and from the start saw that something was badly wrong with this program. I just published a report on H-1Bs, and this week, I interviewed a panel of experts to discuss the visa at the Heritage Foundation.

Our consensus: the H-1B visa has badly deviated from its original intent and needs significant reform to put American workers first.

According to the U.S. Department of Labor, the H-1B was intended to bring workers in a "specialty occupation" to America "to help employers who cannot otherwise obtain needed business skills and abilities from the U.S. workforce." But employers aren’t required to prove they can’t find qualified Americans — or even that they bothered to look.

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And while there were a few obviously exceptional talents among the hundreds, if not thousands, of visa applicants I interviewed in my career, most were average........

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