Guest Commentator

Daniel Costa. JD, The Economic Policy Institute (EPI)

BC Guest Commentator Daniel Costa, JD is Director of Immigration Law and Policy Research at The Economic Policy Institute (EPI). Mr. Costa, an attorney, his current areas of research include a wide range of labor migration issues, including the management of temporary foreign worker programs, both high- and less-skilled migration, immigrant workers’ rights, and forced migration, including refugee and asylum issues and the global migration crisis. David A. Love, JD Managing Editor: Nancy Littlefield, MBA Publisher: Peter Gamble

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Guest Commentary

H-1B Visa Needs Reform to Make it Fairer to Migrant and American Workers

By Daniel Costa. JD, The Economic Policy Institute (EPI) Guest Commentator

Employers and corporate lobby groups claim that they use the H-1B primarily to bring in the “best and brightest” workers from abroad to fill labor shortages in science, technology, engineering, and math fields (STEM). But despite this widely held belief, the contrary is true:

The H-1B program provides temporary, nonimmigrant U.S. work visas for college-educated workers and fashion models from abroad. While no one can deny the importance of attracting…

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