Trump targets visa scheme that feeds Silicon Valley

New York

THE US administration began to deliver on President Donald Trump's campaign promise to crack down on a work visa programme that channels thousands of skilled overseas workers to companies across the technology industry.

Fed up with a programme it says favours foreign workers at the expense of Americans, the Trump administration rolled out a trio of policy shifts.

The US Citizenship and Immigration Services agency on Friday made it harder for companies to bring overseas tech workers to the US using the H-1B work visa. On Monday, the agency issued a memo laying out new measures to combat what it called "fraud and abuse" in the programme.

The Justice Department also warned employers applying fo…