Chad Wolf to Newsmax: H-1B Program Needs Reform

Although there is a need to attract the best and the brightest talent to the United States, the H-1B program is not the best way to do that, Chad Wolf, former acting Department of Homeland Security secretary, told Newsmax on Tuesday.

"As someone who administered that H-1B system, it is in bad need of reform," Wolf, currently American First Policy Institute executive director, told "Wake Up America." "It is a lottery system; it's not based on merit; the pay is extremely low and so you have this concern by many, and I share this concern, that you are just bringing in foreign workers at a much lower [wage] and replacing American workers."

He added that it should also not matter from which country the foreign worker arrives.

"I don't disagree that we need to continue to attract the best and the brightest, the question is whether the program, as it currently exists and is currently administered, is the right program to do that, and I don't think it is," Wolf said.

"H-1B visas are for hi tech, high-skilled foreign workers that come into the United States. There's about 85,000 of them per year set by Congress, but the demand far outweighs and outstrips those 85,000, and there upwards of 800,000 applications for those slots."

Wolf also noted that many "of these students that come [to the United States] and get educated would like to stay here and start a business, and I think that is a good thing for the American economy, but currently we make it hard for them to do that."

Wolf said they should be encouraged to open a business in the U.S.

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