Need to cut down on the H1B’s.
Making drastic changes to these visa programs will create economic disruptions during the transition. It will take some time to replace the foreign workers who get sent home.
Occam’s Razor answer is that Trump does not want to do anything that might disrupt the economy until after the 2020 election.
One more thing:
There should be a legal change disallowing US citizenship to any child born to an H1b working in America.
I think a lot of H1b’s “get busy” during their USA stays specifically to make anchor babies.
I don’t understand how that is better than the Chinese chicks who jet over here, squirt out a child for the blue passport, then hurry home.
To me it’s the same.
“Need to cut down on the H1B’s.”
Companies layoff Americans before H1Bs, because with an American you just have to give them severance. With H1Bs, they get severance and repatriation expenses, that includes paying to ship their crap back, providing them with transportation and moving expenses and purchasing their homes if they are having a difficult time selling them.
My former employer pulled this last summer (15% staff reduction). Only Americans got pink slips. All the H1Bs were retained.