Vivek Ramaswamy played a big gamble, said- 'If I come to power, I will abolish H1B visa'

US Presidential Election: Vivek Ramaswamy of Indian origin, who is contesting in the US Presidential Election 2024, has made a new announcement while playing a big bet. Vivek Ramaswamy has called the H-1B visa program "indentured labor" and has announced to end this system if he comes to power. Indian-American Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy said he would "abolish" the lottery-based H1-B visa system and replace it with meritocracy if he wins the race for the White House in 2024. He has vowed to end the H-1B visa program and prioritize merit for entry.

The much-awaited H-1B visa among Indian IT professionals is a non-immigrant visa that allows US companies to hire foreign workers in specialized occupations that require theoretical or technical expertise. Technology companies depend on it to hire thousands of employees every year from countries like India and China. Ramaswamy himself has used the visa program 29 times. From 2018 to 2023, US Citizenship and Immigration Services approved 29 applications from Ramaswamy's former company, Roivant Sciences, to hire workers under H-1B visas. Still, the H-1B system "is bad for everyone involved," Politico quoted Ramaswamy as saying. "The lottery system needs to be replaced by true merit entry," he said.

Indentured labor is a symbol of slavery

Ramaswami said this is a form of indentured servitude that occurs solely for the benefit of the company that sponsored the H-1B immigrant. I will end it." America needs to end chain-based immigration. "People who come as family members and who make skill-based contributions to this country are not merit-based immigrants. Ramaswamy stepped down as chief executive officer of Roivant in February 2021, but remained chairman of the company's board of directors until February this year when he announced his presidential campaign

Ramaswami will expel the children of infiltrators

Tricia McLaughlin, Ramaswamy's press secretary, said that a policymaker's role "is to do what is right for the country as a whole. This system is broken and needs to be fixed." "Vivek believes that the regulations overseeing the US energy sector have badly collapsed, but he still uses water and electricity," he said in a statement. Ramaswamy, himself the child of immigrants, Has made headlines for his restrictionist immigration policy agenda. He has also said he would use military force to secure the border and deport US-born children of undocumented immigrants. H-1B visas are in high demand And the demand for these workers is continuously increasing.

America gives so many H1-B visas every year

The US grants 65,000 H-1B visas annually which are open to all and 20,000 to people with advanced US degrees. In July, Indian-American Congressman Raja Krishnamurthy introduced a bill proposing to double the annual number of highly skilled foreign workers allowed by Indian professionals on the coveted H-1B work visa. There is also a provision to double the number of H-1B visas from 65,000 to 130,000, to allow US employers to attract the best talent from around the world, including in critical technology sectors. Currently, about three-quarters of H-1B visas are issued to Indian professionals.