China Exploits Legal Immigration Policies to Undermine American National Security, Warns Sen. Cotton
In 2022 alone, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) approved more than 570 H-1B visas for foreign nationals to work in Chinese parent company ByteDance’s California offices. This immigration policy can be manipulated by the regime to undermine American national security, according to Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Akr.)
An H-1B is a temporary visa that allows companies to hire foreign professionals to “perform services in a specialty occupation,” according to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. The US allows 65,000 H-1B workers a year to stay between three to six years.
“But there is this nexus between China and our legal immigration system that China uses to exploit America’s prosperity and put at risk our security and also influence our politics,” Cotton said at an immigration Newsmaker conversation hosted by the Center for Immigration Studies on November 17….