"New H-1B rules would result in up to 5,340 more immigrants with a master’s degree or higher getting selected for a visa," Jeb Bush tweeted February 1. "A good change in policy."
Bush’s endorsement is a problem for Trump, who ran against Bush’s pro-Wall Street policies.
In the 2016 campaign, Bush promised to jump-start economic growth for investors by accelerating the inflow of foreign consumers and workers. In contrast, Trump promised to help voters by reforming the immigration system and visa worker programs. On his Inauguration Day, Trump announced his policy of "Hire American."
The "Hire American" policy has successfully pushed down the arrival of migrants and refugees and is forcing employers to hire and pay Americans at higher rates than ever before. In 2018, for example, wages rose by 3 percent, putting Trump on track to raise wages by a huge 10 percent during his first term. The policy is also helping his electoral base ‐ wages for several categories of blue-collar workers rose quickly while wages in the critical Minneapolis region rose by 5.2 percent.
But Trump’s "Hire American" policy has not helped the many professional, college-educated Americans who are losing jobs and careers to a flood of government-subsidized visa workers imported from Indian and Chinese colleges. In November 2018, many of GOP-leaning American college voters backed Democratic candidates instead of Trump’s GOP allies.