President Donald Trump's aide and the Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights at the US Department of Justice, Harmeet Dhillon, spoke about her department's action against the discrimination of Americans in US jobs. Speaking to Texas journalist Sara Gonzales, who busts alleged H-1B abuses on her show, Dhillon said she used to call the IT bodyshops 'software pimps' when she was working in Silicon Valley. Dhillon explained the economy of IT bodyshops or staffing companies that bring H-1Bs from overseas and then place them with clients. These staffing companies, she said, often trade these H-1Bs within themselves because they can't sponsor all of them, and she called it a 'human trafficking' operation.
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