Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-MO) says the H-1B visa program, which allows hundreds of thousands of mid-level foreign workers primarily from India to take professional jobs in the United States every year, is “kneecapping white collar workers” across the country who are often laid off and forced to train their foreign replacements.

During a speech at the National Conservative Conference, Schmitt seemingly blasted old-guard Republicans who support legal immigration at all costs, including the H-1B visa program, which he called a mere tool for businesses to hire cheap, compliant foreign labor over college-educated Americans.

“The old conservative establishment may have opposed something like illegal immigration on procedural grounds — simply because it was illegal. But they took no issue with it in

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