As I understand it (this is from his website), Trump's proposals are 1) Increase prevailing wage for H-1Bs 2) Requirement to hire American workers first I ac

As I understand it (this is from his website), Trump's proposals are 1) Increase prevailing wage for H-1Bs 2) Requirement to hire American workers first I actually don't see here a "right to work" for US citizens, only a requirement that they be hired prior to issuing a visa for a non-citizen/permanent resident. There are no details here, and how this is implemented is all important. First, what would the minimum wage floor be? Market rate plus a percentage? Personally, I'd say that in high cost regions like SF, if the salary is less than $150k a year, it should be dismissed with contempt. I know this would cause sticker shock to employers, but when the median price of a house is well over 1 million, I'd say the minimum salary should be at least 200k, and probably more (this is in SF/Silicon Valley, it could be lower elsewhere). The reason I say this is that if the worker can't afford a buy a house and support a family in the region where the job is located, then you have a wage issue, not a skills issue. Keep in mind, we're talking about changing the normal hiring rules for employers seeking supposedly high skilled, highly educated workers who can't be found at any (reasonable?) wage. I understand that many jobs pay less, but we don't talk about a shortage of cashiers so critical that the US government needs to create a special visa for cashiers, even though employers would absolutely love to pay their cashiers less. The issue of hiring a US citizen or permanent resident first is also all in the details. Suppose a programmer being interviewed for a junior web developer position does a great job on fizzbuzz, and can implement code to find all subsets of a set of integers that sum to a prime number at the whiteboard, but stumbles a bit trying to write code to find the sub matrix with the largest sum in an NXM matrix. Would this mean that the company can say attempted to hire a US citizen first? Alternatively, suppose that programmer completely failed fizzbuzz? Personally, I like (but haven't fully considered) the approach of setting a very high minimum salary level, and then making it unlimited or setting the cap very high. To me, very high is, like, 250k ore more.