Rep Rich McCormick, a Republican from Georgia, has written to the Trump administration that his district, Georgia's 7th Congressional district, has become a suspected hotspot of H-1B visa fraud and that the administration should investigate. He said he would act as an interlocutor to help enable cooperation with state-level agencies and law enforcement. "Established by the Immigration Act of 1990, the purpose of the H-1B program is to allow American businesses to temporarily bring in foreign citizens to fill key, high-skill employment positions when the domestic workforce demonstrably cannot provide the necessary labor," McCormick wrote.
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