At the same time as Dept of Labor Inspector General Anthony D’Esposito launches an investigation into H1B visa abuses by corporations who engaged in visa fraud, Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Warsh appoints advisors to the FED on labor policy that includes one of the most egregious violators of H1B fraud, XBox CEO Asha Sharma.
It is beyond frustrating to see our labor system for ‘qualified technical positions’ being abused by companies who are intentionally discriminating against American workers.
American born Asha Sharma was the former VP at Facebook during their $14M settlement with DOJ for discriminating against American workers. Now as CEO of Microsoft XBox gaming, she has announced the termination of around 3,200 employees while Microsoft, company-wide, filed 2,879 Labor Condition Application for H-1B positions in fiscal year 2026.
There is a pattern at work within the high-tech industry where corporations factor in the price of lawsuits as a cost of doing business, a cost-effective way to continue discriminating against American workers. Obviously, they deny this practice, yet the transparent visibility of the practice continuing tell a more honest story.
Into this mix, Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Warsh announces an advisory network of business and economic leaders to help guide FED policy on a variety of subjects. [CITATION] Within the Productivity and Jobs taskforce, Asha Sharma surfaces as an advisor “to inform the Federal Reserve’s policy judgments.”
I’m sure all of these are lovely people, with the best intentions for their own personal interests. However, where in the dynamic of FED policy advisors is the person who speaks directly to the needs of American workers who are being forced by policy to compete against the entire world for a tech sector job.
Arminio Fraga, founder and chairman, Gávea Investimentos; former president, Central Bank of Brazil. Mervyn King, former governor, Bank of England. Raghuram Rajan, professor of finance, University of Chicago Booth School of Business; former governor, Reserve Bank of India. Raj Chetty, professor of economics, Harvard University. Asha Sharma, executive vice president and XBOX CEO, Microsoft Corp. {SOURCE}
VGC – […] Notably, Sharma was named one of three advisors on the Productivity and Jobs task force, which the Federal Reserve says will be assessing, among other things, the impact of AI.
According to a news release, the task force will look at “the economic impact of new general-purpose technologies, including artificial intelligence, to inform the Federal Reserve’s policy judgments.”
Supported by Federal Reserve staff, the task forces will operate independently, with “a mandate to follow the evidence, provide candid feedback, and produce rigorous findings for the Federal Open Market Committee”. (more)
Stumbled across this yesterday. It now appears very relevant? “Tulsi Gabbard, Hare Krisna, and UFO Cults, Part 1
Rounding the Earth Newsletter / by Mathew Crawford / Jul 8, 2026 at 6:11 AM”. A wild read.
I was going to look all these folks up, and started at the beginning above with Arminio Fraga. My search returned this from Wikipedia, and I didn’t go any further:
“Armínio Fraga Neto (born 20 July 1957, in Rio de Janeiro) is a Brazilian economist who was president of the Central Bank of Brazil from 1999 to 2003.[1] From 1993 until his appointment to the Central Bank, he was Managing Director of Soros Fund Management in New York.”
Uh, what? How will these appointments further the interests of the American System?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arminio_Fraga
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent likely knew this gentleman since he also worked for Soros Fund Management.
Sorry John. Yours was the next comment. I didn’t see until I posted. It’s not lost on many of us apparently.
Mervyn King…Britain.
Enobled, now Lord King, member of the UK Upper Crust and no doubt chummy with (if not part of) the British Imperialists whose system of globalist rule President Trump is displacing.
The more we look at the various appointees, the worse it gets.
Keep your friends close but your enemies closer…..? 😉 ( Michael Corleon)
I recall Sec. Scott Bessent had a Soros in his background resume.
Re: MS and H-1B Visas ….
Here’s a link to another article emanating out of the once great State of Washington … which is now a cesspool of sanctuary cities, fake voters, gang members, “homeless” bums and druggies, more illegals and to top it off — MORE “legal” 3rd World carpetbaggers w/ H-1B Visas arriving to take jobs from Washingtonians and their families … and some of the same “players” are involved as in the CTH article — what a surprise, yes ???
“Outrage as Microsoft cuts 1,600 Xbox jobs, imports 2,273 on H-1B”
https://seattlered.com/economy/microsoft-xbox-layoffs-h1b-visas-washington/4119348
Disclaimer: my wife’s son-in-law is in “upper management” at MS Redmond, WA … and he’s a complete slime-ball, IMO …
As such, he fits right in nicely w/ the rest of the “upper management” team …
Q.E.D.
Microsoft has campuses in India and more are being built so perhaps a shift is in the future?
Since the 1990’s MS India campus teach English and coding and are nothing but H-1B factories.
One can hope these “displaced” American workers won’t be sending generous campaign contributions to thee Democrat Candidates in their Districts ? Maybe even most of them will vote GOP in 4 months ?
Crazier things have happened.
Question for the legal eagles here. Is there any reason states can’t pass income taxes specifically for H1B visa holders? I would think if that could be done and were set at an appropriate level, the number of people willing to apply for H1B visa jobs would decrease.
Extremely distressing that normal US citizens are not represented.
I have heard Warsh speak at the Hoover Institute years ago and found him thoughtful. Supported his appointment.
Now I am having lots of second thoughts.
If he sticks to the 2% minimum inflation target and listens to these type of people; we are cooked.
The government is borrowing a 150 billion a month adding to the 39 trillion debt and almost 1 trillion a year of interest cost. It is essentially ignored I suppose until it blows up. Oh well.
They’re all foreigners. The xbox lady is a paper American.
She might be “American born” but she is clearly discriminating against REAL Americans! Damn her and her kind.
Is there a lack of AMERICAN citizens who would be more suited to this new board? And per another Treeper, one of them is a Soros afflicted person.
This really ticks me off.
Don’t get me started on H1B’s (spit!).
Scott Bessent is widely praised here and he is a protege of Soros.
Disappointing if true.
Live updates: Trump will allow a bipartisan housing bill he thwarted to become law tomorrow
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/live-blog/trump-2026-election-congress-housing-iran-ice-doj-live-updates-rcna358291
Ok, fine. I don’t like the selection(s), but let’s focus on on factual information -of the roughly 3200 folks laid off at Xbox where where these layoffs and who were they? Was it all in the US, were they all US citizens, how many laid off were H1B visa holders. What is the exact layoff characteristics and what were their jobs vs the newly added H1B visas and their potential gigs. Flying a little blind
May we hope that Warsh is bringing a bad ass player into the office to watch her more closely ?
I’m still stuck at the American citizen employment needs determined by people born with silver spoons in their mouths not raised as Americans and never worked an American job from the ground up.. Yet here they are running a think tank to figure out what to do with the average working US citizen.. Kinda telling of the NWO plan for the US boomer Citizens..
The boomers are either retired or will retire in the next several years.
China announcing a gold backed Yuan for oil purchase on July 24th. Houston…we have a problem.
The vultures are circling. That can only mean they detect the decaying corpse of the American economic sector. Et tu Kevin?