Republican lawmakers are keeping the pressure on the H-1B visa program, despite President Donald Trump’s recent defense of the long-standing system that lets U.S. employers recruit highly skilled foreign workers.
As part of that push, Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene reiterated that she plans to introduce bill to “completely eliminate” the H-1B visa program and revoke any associated path to citizenship, a move she says would “force” immigrants to “return home” once their visas expire.
“My dear fellow Americans, I’m introducing a bill to completely eliminate the H-1B visa program, which has been riddled with fraud and abuse and has been displacing American workers for decades,” Congresswoman Greene, from Georgia, said in a video posted on X on Thursday.
She added that her proposal would include only one carve-out: a yearly cap of 10,000 visas for medical professionals such as doctors and nurses whose work involves providing essential, life-saving care to Americans.
Greene also said her bill would seek to boost the pipeline of U.S.-trained medical professionals by barring Medicare-funded residency programs from accepting non-citizen medical students, arguing that taxpayer dollars should support American trainees first.
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She pointed to last year’s figures to make her case, saying more than 9,000 U.S. medical school graduates were unable to secure residency placements, while in 2023 more than 5,000 foreign-born doctors matched into residency programs.
“This is entirely unfair, and it’s America last. My bill will help mitigate the shortage of doctors and nurses in our country, the shortage that we face while at the same time serve as an off-ramp from our reliance on foreign workers by allowing us time to fill our residency programs with American doctors,” Greene said.
The congresswoman also added that her bill will also “take away the pathway to citizenship, forcing visa holders to return home when their visa expires.” Greene further said that the motive of the bill is to restore the “original intent” of the H-1B visa, which was “for it to be temporary.”
“These visas were intended to fulfill a specialty occupational need at a given time. People should not be allowed to come and live here forever. We thank them for their expertise, but we also wish them well so they may return to their home country,” Greene said.
Her to be introduced bill will “completely end the H-1B visa program and all other sectors in the job force and in the workforce.”
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“This is America first. It’s time to put American citizens first instead of foreigners first, and this has been an abuse for far too long. Americans deserve a future. They deserve a chance. And I believe Americans are the most talented people in the world and the most creative, and I want them to have their American dream,” she said.
Announcing this bill via post, Greene wrote on X, “I am introducing a bill to END the mass replacement of American workers by aggressively phasing out the H1B program. Big Tech, AI giants, hospitals, and industries across the board have abused the H-1B system to cut out our own people. Americans are the most talented people in the world, and I have full faith in the American people. I serve Americans only, and I will ALWAYS put Americans first.”
“My bill ELIMINATES the corrupt H-1B program and puts AMERICANS FIRST again in tech, healthcare, engineering, manufacturing, and every industry that keeps this country running!! If we want the next generation to have the American Dream, we must stop replacing them and start investing in them,” Greene further wrote on X.