00:00My dear fellow Americans, I'm introducing a bill to completely eliminate the H-1B visa program,
00:06which has been riddled with fraud and abuse and has been displacing American workers for decades.
00:13There will only be one exemption in my bill, and it will allow for a $10,000 per year cap on visas
00:20issued to medical professionals like doctors and nurses who provide life-saving care to Americans.
00:26However, even this $10,000 per year cap will be phased out over 10 years to allow us time to build our own pipeline of American doctors and physicians.
00:39My bill will also restore the original intent of the visa for it to be temporary.
00:45These visas were intended to fulfill a specialty occupational need at a given time.
00:51People should not be allowed to come and live here forever.
00:54We thank them for their expertise, but we also wish them well so they may return to their home country.
01:01My bill will take away the pathway to citizenship, forcing visa holders to return home when their visa expires.
01:09In order to build our pipeline of American doctors and medical professionals,
01:14my bill will also prohibit Medicare-funded residency programs from admitting non-citizen medical students into their programs.
01:22Just last year alone, there were over 9,000 doctors in the U.S. who graduated from medical school but were left without a residency placement.
01:33Meanwhile, in 2023 alone, there were over 5,000 foreign-born doctors who received residency spots.
01:41This is entirely unfair, and it's America last.
01:44My bill will help mitigate the shortage of doctors and nurses in our country, the shortage that we face,
01:52while at the same time serve as an off-ramp from our reliance on foreign workers
01:57by allowing us time to fill our residency programs with American doctors.
02:02Now, this will completely end the H-1B visa program in all other sectors in the job force and in the workforce.
02:11This is America first.
02:14It's time to put American citizens first instead of foreigners first.
02:18And this has gone on, and this has been an abuse for far too long.
02:22Americans deserve a future.
02:24They deserve a chance.
02:26And I believe Americans are the most talented people in the world, the most creative,
02:31and I want them to have their American dream.
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