The time has come to praise Donald Trump. Let’s savor the moment. The president is right to challenge the tech worker visa known as H-1B. This is a temporary visa that lets American companies hire skilled foreign workers in “specialty occupations.”

The visa’s fans offer a mirror image, with a twist, of the popular argument that low-skilled immigrants do jobs Americans won’t do. They say that the H-1B program provides workers for jobs that Americans can’t do.

Consider, however, the employers’ extra incentive of paying holders of the H-1B visas less than the “prevailing wage” for Americans with similar skills. They’re not allowed to, but they often do. Some have laid off their American employees after forcing them to train their cheaper H-1B replacements. The maneuver is cleverly spun as

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