Republican businessman Zach Lahn says that if he is elected governor of Iowa, he will ban H-1B visa holders from taking jobs in state government and universities.

He also pledged to require contractors doing business with the state to publicly disclose how many Americans they are hiring for a state project, which he says will be “inversely correlated to how many H1-Bs you have.”

In a recent gubernatorial debate aired in Iowa on Tuesday, Lahn blasted the H-1B program and said it “is one of the most abused immigration programs that we have” because it gives jobs directly to foreigners and skips over Iowans, the Iowa Capital Dispatch reported.

“The…

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