Republican Texas Rep. Chip Roy is leading the charge to end H1-B visa abuses by reforming work and residency requirements, the Daily Caller learned.

Roy’s bill, dubbed the American White-Collar Worker Jobs Act, would implement major reforms to prevent employers from exploiting foreign workers, terminate the H1-B visa lottery system, and ensure companies prioritize local American workers over H-1B visa holders, according to bill text obtained exclusively by the Daily Caller.

The legislation would implement these reforms by requiring H-1B visa applicants to be selected based on overall merit and requiring employers to pay the selectees the same wage as American workers with the same experience and qualifications.

The bill would also require a labor market test to determine if employers made a good faith effort to hire local workers before hiring H1-B visa holders. This test would be conducted by the Department of Labor (DOL) and the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS).

“For its nearly forty-year history, the H1-B visa has been abused, allowing employers to routinely sideline American STEM workers in favor of cheap foreign labor, while masking layoffs and wage suppression as ‘shortages,’” Roy told the Caller.

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