It also says President Trump's agency heads will watch how those "buy American laws" already in place are enforced and come up with ideas to improve them.
"We are going to do everything in our power to make sure that more products are stamped, with those wonderful words, made in the USA", Trump told a crowd of technical students and manufacturing employees at the headquarters of Snap-On Tools in Kenosha.
He said the order sets in motion the first steps to initiate "long-overdue" reforms to end "visa abuses".
Asserting that the H-1B visa system was meant to meet the acute shortage of highly-skilled domestic talent in the USA, it said additional curbs on the H-1B or L-1 visas would hurt thousands of United States businesses and their efforts to be competitive by hindering access to needed talent.
Defending the H1-B system, many USA technology firms said that they cannot find enough skilled American workers, arguing that scrapping the program could cause foreign students studying math and science in the United Sates to leave the country after finishing college or graduate school.
The US president said the order aims to "aggressively promote and use American-made goods and to ensure that American labor is hired to do the job", adding that the move was in line with his plans to put "America First". We don't use it so much anymore.
It's the promise that helped President Trump win the White House: To "Make America Great Again".
Democratic Senator Sherrod Brown meanwhile applauded Trump for the executive order.
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"We are finally standing up for our workers and our companies", Trump said.
The technology industry relies heavily on the H-1B visa program to bring in engineering talent from overseas, and executives say they simply can not hire enough American workers to fill jobs at their companies.
But according to studies, 80 per cent of the approved applications were for the two lowest wage levels allowed. The tech industry has argued that the H-1B program is needed because it encourages students to stay in the US after getting degrees in high-tech specialties - and because companies can't always find enough American workers with the skills they need.
The Trump administration rolled out policy shifts earlier this month to begin cracking down on the H-1B visa system. As per several United States reports, a majority of the H-1B visas every year are grabbed by Indian IT professionals. As ordered by the Congress, the US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) consistently issued 65,000 H-1B visas and another 20,000 to those candidates having aces and higher degrees from a US educational organization.
The ban is also expected to levy a blow to the tech industry, as many foreign nationals immigrate on the H-1B visa.
Trump's order asks federal agencies to review the program and propose new rules to prevent fraud.
"This does nothing", said Senator Charles Schumer of NY, the Democratic leader. "It's not going to create a single job". Find us on Facebook too!
"For a president who has prided himself on his swift action when it comes to immigration, an interagency review of the programme is a guarded and timid approach".
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