Work Permits Cut From 5 Years to 18 Months

A good start. Now limit H1Bs to 10 per company.

The impetus to give them 10 years, 5 years, whatever ...was.... "Because of court backlogs", backlogs that were intentionally created by allowing people to cross over then requests a hearing before an actual "Judge" but the cases could only be heard by "Immigration" Judges, and the cut the funding for Immigration Judges near the border, while expanding their number and allocations nearly 10 fold...Inland... opening several courts in nearly every state, then flying border crosser s to what ever state they chose...giving them housing and food, etc...until their hearing, often their 2nd, or even 3rd hearing. There are hundreds of immigration judges now, but some only hear a dozen or so cases per year, many 100 cases or less, while some hear over 1000cases per year. Collectively they REJECT over 85% of all claims, but some judges accept 90-100% of all claims. Trump has ordered JAG military judges to pick up some of the slack, and is putting pressure on regular immigration court judges to step up their game and hear a reasonable number of cases to justify their continued employment, or be fired, or retired. As well as initiating oversight as to how so many cases are allowed in when the rubric for doing so is NOT fulfilled. Priot to Clinton, when "Migrants" were in 1st "Contact" with any immigration/border official, they were read 9 questions(or less), from a simple note card similar to a Miranda Card, any wrong answer and they were immediately returned to the other side, whether that was at a Port of Entry, the side of a road, the middle of a field, or in a jailhouse. ACLU/LULAC/La RAZA all sued to force those questions to be asked in front of an actual Judge instead.In some big states, and even cities, there are several Immigration Courts, some of which have 20 judges...in the same court building there will be judges that hear 1200cases per year,, and other judges that hear 12 cases a year...Some judges that reject 95% off all claims, and others that approve 95%. It does not pass the "Smell test" when the actual "Crack in the Laws" that allow some to remain is very, verrrrry, narrow.

Why only for new applicants? Why not on all? About time we make the H1 B and L1 holders train the Americans

Should cut them to one month

Companies take advantage of every opportunity to shave money off their costs. I lost my job to an H1-B visa worker, but while I was looking for a new job, I met the love of my life, who I would never have met if I had been working. Also, I ended up crossing off a couple of bucket list items before I landed one of my best jobs ever.

With the cut in Federal workers there should be enough people here to hire without importing help. They need to put a moratorium on B1-B Visas and study the matter.

One of the prime reasons for having immigration control laws in the first place is to protect American workers from foreign labor who have been known for decades to undercut American labor by taking American jobs at lower wages and much less fair working conditions than American workers could accept and maintain any sort of customary US standard of living. The real question is, does the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency (ICE) have the manpower and the wherewithal to inquire and investigate the legitimacy of the massive number of “temporary” foreign workers who have been allowed to enter the USA, essentially to take American jobs working for politically connected corporations and employers, who are politically connected to the leftist Democrats who want as many foreign origin workers as possible to be able to come into the USA indefinitely, take American jobs, never be required to leave the USA, and instead be put on a path to citizenship and become a future Democrat voting constituency, along with the wimpy Republicans who just intend to provide employers with as much cheap foreign labor as possible in return for large campaign contributions. As long as the “temporary” foreign worker programs remain uncontrolled and are not limited to foreign origin workers who are coming to take American jobs where American workers are really not available to do those jobs, or cannot be trained to take particular American jobs. Until those government run programs are brought back under control it will be American workers who will be disadvantaged.

change in the law would also require they became serious about enforcement - also how about requiring a bond for a visa - would go a long way in aligning visa holder action to immigration law