President Donald Trump' aide Harmeet Dhillon, the assistant attorney general for Civil Rightys at the US Department of Justice, has reacted to the controversy triggered by Y Combinator partnet Ankit Gupta and said that American employers won't be allowed to discriminate against US citizens. Dhillon also made it clear that her comment was not targeted at Gupta or YC but all tech companies that prefer to hire foreigners.
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Dhillon said as she worked in Silicon Valley as a tech lawyer for decades, she knows how the biggest public tech companies prefer H-1Bs to Americans and then pay them less. She said she also has an idea of how companies hire from OPT and they don't even post jobs on regular channels and entrust foreign-born managers to hire from their own country.
"These are not good business practices; they are not patriotic economic practices; and they are illegal labor practices. This administration will not allow American employers to discriminate against American workers. It is illegal, wrong, and bad for our economy. I am sure my colleagues at @USEEOC and @USDOL agree. We are all on the case, and working together to level the playing field for US workers," Dhillon said.
