H1-B overhaul gaining bipartisan support in Congress

President Trump's immigration policy is downright toxic to most on the Left, but there is one area where the White House has a realistic chance to sign broadly bipartisan reform: a bill scaling back the H1-B visa program for high-tech workers.

Immigration hawks and liberal activists for years have both said the program is badly abused by employers, and Trump agrees with them. Even fans of the program now talk about the need for an overhaul.

"The odds are pretty good. This is a very clear priority for the administration," said Calvin Moore, spokesman for Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., who has co-sponsored one of the four H1-B reform bills that have been introduced in Congress.

Matt Biggs, spokesman for the International Federation of Professional and Technical Engineers, which has long called for limiting the visa program, agrees. "In all of the years I have been following it, this is the best opportunity right now," he said.

Even the high-tech industry, which uses the majority of the visas, says that change is needed — but only to update the program. "What we see from members of Congress is that there is a need and a desire to crack down on the bad actors in the industry," said Todd Schulte, president of FWD.us, a coalition group that includes Microsoft, Facebook and other technology companies.