I'll post this again because we need American citizens in American jobs here, at home:
Besides promising to bring back manufacturing jobs to the US, please remember the tech jobs, processing jobs, desk jobs, call centers, etc., that need to come back too.
No more H1b's until there are no more US citizens to fill those jobs. In fact, the H1b's already here need to go home. And are any US business in a scurry to hire as many H1b's as they can before Trump takes office?
The H1b and other tactics have done damage to the workforce. How many citizens lost jobs in employer preference for non-citizens? It's been a cascading nightmare as new job seekers cannot find entry level jobs that are either taken by non-citizens or can be filled by over qualified US workers laid off from jobs they had seniority and expertise in. In other words, the over qualified are working for lower wages if they can even get the jobs, locking out those who need to begin careers because employers can get eight years experience for an entry level job.
Meanwhile, the up and comers cannot get the job experience they need. People need to work their way up and that has been decimated by US companies either outsourcing jobs oversees or hiring non-citizens.
US citizens first for hire. Get back into mentoring and on the job training for citizens in this country. That's how you build a workforce.
There should be a penalty as severe or worse for outsourcing jobs out of this country or hiring non-citizens over qualified citizens, not just manufacturing.
I do not think we are lacking in workers- but big business and globalization has caused gaps that would not be there if the jobs had stayed here.
The goal was to make the world so interdependent that no country could function on its own. Instead, countries can be independent and still help each other. Make America independent by getting its citizen workforce back on its feet.