Poll finds that 60% of likely American voters don't think the U.S. needs more H-1B visa workers

Amid the heated debate brewing in MAGA world, a new poll finds that a majority of likely American voters believe the U.S. does not need more foreign H-1B visa workers. 

As President-elect Donald Trump picked sides and went with the co-heads of his new Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, to argue that the U.S. needs to continue its policy of recruiting more people to come work in the U.S. via the H-1B visas, a new Rasmussen Reports survey reveals that 6-in-10 Americans say the U.S. “already has enough talented people to train and recruit” for white-collar jobs, according to Breitbart.

The question posed to the respondents was whether Congress should increase the inflow of foreign workers. Only 26% say Congress should increase the number of H-1B foreign visa workers to take white-collar jobs in the U.S. 

Among Republicans, the poll shows that 72% say the U.S. has enough talented people who can be trained and recruited for such jobs, while 63 percent of swing voters, and a plurality of 47 percent of Democrats say the same.

Breitbart reports that there are hundreds of thousands of young college-educated Americans entering the STEM workforce every year looking for entry-level jobs with decent salaries and good benefits. But their chances of finding such jobs are vastly reduced because of the inflow of tens of thousands of foreign H-1B visa workers annually who will compete directly against them for those jobs. 

In Trump’s first term in office, the administration reformed the H-1B visa program to better protect Americans looking for those same jobs. But by 2022, according to Breitbart, President Joe Biden gutted those reforms, and allowed companies to reapply to hire the lower wage H1-B visa workers.