This is big. Through this executive order President Trump is defining fraud, corruption and abuse within the H1B visa system as a “national security threat.” That designation gives DHS and State Dept officials an elevated power-set to immediately introduce corrective action.
….”The systematic and organized abuse of the H-1B program is also a national security threat”…
Many of us have wanted urgent action on this matter. President Trump has addressed forcefully. [EXECUTIVE ORDER HERE]
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered:
Section 1. Purpose. The H-1B nonimmigrant visa program was created to identify uniquely skilled and highly specialized foreign temporary workers to strategically supplement the United States economy. Instead, the program has been widely abused by certain employers, third-party placement groups, and outsourcing firms to undercut and displace the supply of skilled United States labor. The large-scale, systematic abuse of the H-1B program to obtain non-qualifying foreign labor has undermined the additive purpose of the program and harmed the wages, working conditions, and job opportunities of skilled American workers.
The abuse of cheaper H-1B labor places downward pressure on domestic pay. H-1B visa holders earn far less than comparable United States-born workers, despite the statutory mandate that H-1B workers be paid equally to their domestic peers, with the estimated wage gap starting at $9,000 and climbing as high as $20,000 in H-1B reliant industries. One company even warned its shareholders that restrictions on cheap H-1B labor could force the company to use “local” workers, which “may only be available at higher wages.”
Many employers have laid off large numbers of highly skilled American workers, only to promptly hire large numbers of H-1B workers who are often lower-skilled and lower-paid. For instance, technology sector employers have collectively requested H-1B visas for hundreds of thousands of workers, yet have also laid off somewhere between 800,000 to 1.3 million American employees from 2022 through 2026. Employers have even forced laid off American workers to train their foreign replacements.
Many jobs held by H-1B workers eventually leave the United States entirely. Employers with outsourcing business models use teams of H-1B visa holders to replace United States workers at third‑party client businesses and liaise with other individuals working off-site from their country of origin. As soon as practicable, much of their own work is transferred offshore. In Fiscal Year 2026, the top six users of the H-1B program operating with this outsourcing business model accounted for over 25,000 H-1B cap registrations. One foreign country’s foreign minister even publicly admitted that H-1B “has become the outsourcing visa.”
The systematic and organized abuse of the H-1B program is also a national security threat. Domestic law enforcement agencies have investigated H-1B-reliant outsourcing firms for engaging in visa fraud, conspiracy to launder money, and other illicit activities to encourage foreign workers to come to the United States. Abuses of the H-1B program also present a national security threat by discouraging Americans from pursuing careers in science and technology, risking vital United States leadership in these fields.
Numerous executive departments and agencies (agencies) have flagged employers’ large‑scale, systematic abuse of the H-1B program to obtain lower‑paid, lower-skilled labor from abroad. These ongoing Government probes continue to identify widespread fraud and noncompliance among H-1B employers, such as: displacing American workers or otherwise giving preference to alien workers; misrepresenting the duties, requirements, or working conditions of job opportunities to avoid hiring or training American workers, falsely qualify jobs as specialty occupations, or lower applicable wage requirements; and misrepresenting aliens’ qualifications to perform specialty occupations by submitting questionable foreign degrees from diploma mills as support for their H-1B visa applications. The pervasiveness of these violations and the persistence of the violators confirm that more needs to be done to preserve the H-1B program’s integrity.
I have determined that continued efforts must be made to protect and prioritize the American workforce. It is therefore the policy of the United States that all relevant agencies shall implement appropriate measures to protect American workers from abuse of the H-1B program and ensure that the program serves the national interest.
Sec. 2. Interagency Coordination. When processing petitions, labor condition applications, and visas for the entry into the United States of aliens as nonimmigrants to perform services in a specialty occupation under section 101(a)(15)(H)(i)(b) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) (8 U.S.C. 1101(a)), the Secretary of State, the Secretary of Labor, and the Secretary of Homeland Security shall coordinate and consult with the Secretary of Commerce, the Secretary of Education, and the Administrator of the Small Business Administration to ensure the compliance of such petitions, applications, and visas with statutory requirements, including those in sections 101(a)(15)(H)(i)(b), 212(n), 214(i), and 274B of the INA. The Secretary of Commerce, the Secretary of Education, and the Administrator of the Small Business Administration shall provide any relevant wage, employment, academic, industrial, or other economic information.
Sec. 3. Consideration of Applications, Petitions, and Visas. (a) Consistent with sections 101(a)(15)(H)(i)(b), 212(n), 214(i), 215(a), and 274B of the INA, the Secretary of State, the Secretary of Labor, and the Secretary of Homeland Security shall take into account in any labor condition application, petition, visa, and entry of aliens entering or attempting to enter the United States as H-1B nonimmigrants to perform services in a specialty occupation whether the employer sponsor directly or indirectly engaged in layoffs within the previous year or plans future layoffs that negatively affect the employment of similarly situated United States workers.
(b) Within 30 days of the date of this order, the Secretary of Labor, through the Administrator of the Wage and Hour Division, shall begin reviewing data related to previously submitted labor condition applications to determine whether further action against sponsoring employers is warranted under section 212(n)(2)(G).
(c) Pursuant to 3 U.S.C. 301, the authority granted to the President under section 215(a) of the INA is hereby delegated to the Secretary of State, the Secretary of Commerce, the Secretary of Labor, and the Secretary of Homeland Security to the extent necessary to implement this order, including the authority to issue or adopt rules, policies, operational guidance, or other guidance to carry out this order.
Sec. 4. General Provisions. (a) Nothing in this order shall be construed to impair or otherwise affect:
(i) the authority granted by law to an executive department or agency, or the head thereof; or
(ii) the functions of the Director of the Office of Management and Budget relating to budgetary, administrative, or legislative proposals.
(b) This order shall be implemented consistent with applicable law and subject to the availability of appropriations.
(c) This order is not intended to, and does not, create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in equity by any party against the United States, its departments, agencies, or entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or any other person.
(d) If any provision of this order, or the application of any provision to any person or circumstances, is held to be invalid, the remainder of this order and the application of any of its other provisions to any other persons or circumstances shall not be affected thereby.
(e) The costs for publication of this order shall be borne by the Department of Homeland Security.
{SOURCE}
For those who cried “bullshit”—wrong again.
Hours ago, @POTUS reaffirmed: AMERICAN WORKERS FIRST.
To the foreign labor visa fraudsters: expect a knock at the door. @Sonderling47, @DOLOIG and I will bring the handcuffs.#FraudFriday pic.twitter.com/DOtT9uKevV
— Inspector General Anthony D'Esposito (@USLaborIG) September 18, 2026
Silicon valley, I see your false flag AI warning and raise you a bunch of H1B’s.
This EO creates massive leverage over the AI elites. They should carefully consider their next move before taking action.
President Trump has put a great big hammer over their heads.
Very Stable Genius indeed!
Dinner with XI next week should be delicious.
Better bring along a taster.
There’s trouble in paradise……
https://www.youtube.com/watch
I can hardly wait to see how this shakes out.
your link doesn’t work
Uh oh! My bad.
Thanks for the heads up.
It’s corrected now. See above.
Corrected link:
Injunction coming in 3,2,1
Probably so, but from what I understand this EO basically utilizes a lot of already existing law, so the injunction abusers might just find themselves hung up in some big snags.
Fingers crossed.
You may not know just how bad the H1B visa allocation is the Silicon Valley truly is.
I LIVE in San Jose. My neighborhood is 45% White, 45% Asian and remainder Black/Latino.
The percentage of Indians is very rising rapidly.
Oh yes I am aware.
Every day at EWR (Newark Liberty) we saw 3 or 4 planeloads from either Delhi or Mumbai… with:
H-1B
H-4 (spouse/immediate family
F-1
F-2 (spouse/family)
J-1
J-2 (spouse/family)
L-1
L-2 (spouse/family)
B-1
B-2
And those who now had a green card (LPR)
or naturalized (USC)
Every darn day the past 20 years.
This is an answer to prayer. Send them all back, pls. Every last one including their anchor babies and parents who soak taxpayers.
He really does want to win the Mid-Terms.
huh.
MAGA
Just Making America Great and Prosperous for Americans Again.
But…but..but… who will run all of our dumpy motels???
From chatbot:
Indian Americans, particularly those from the Gujarat state in India, own a dominant share of the independent, budget motel market in the United States.
Market Share: Estimates indicate that Indian Americans own roughly 50% to 60% of all budget motels and hotels in the U.S., with this figure rising to 80-90% in small towns and rural areas.
Business Model: This dominance stems from a strategy of purchasing low-cost, older roadside motels, living on-site to minimize overhead, and leveraging family labor and community lending networks to reinvest profits into acquiring more properties.
Plus, they were able to get small business loans from the SBA that should have gone to Americans and, instead, were given to foreign invaders.
I saw an application for sale loans 15 years ago. All description of female foreign, native American, pacific islander….on and on. Conspicuous in its omission? White male.
Also the indian/ Pakistani lock on motels is a mix
On ebay loans and left over caste system.
‘Patel’ literally translates to ” inkeeper” in India and Pakistan.
That’s sba loans.damn phone.
True: but they generally hire family members to work the motels. I doubt they bring in H1Bs; though maybe they do use H2Bs.
À once highly reputable hotel in our small VT city was purchased 3 years ago by à partnership of Indian businessmen. They are squeezing every last dime out of it and running it into the ground. There has been only rare, intermittent elevator service in à four story hotel. There is a constant stream of immigrant workers doing 3 month stints among only a handful of local workers. The imports live/work/isolate within the hotel. No different than slave labor. My point: these are not all Mom & Pop Patel operations.
I couldn’t believe that the beautiful motels in Bennington, Vermont along Rt 9 passing Bennington College are all welfare motels now
It’s disgusting what’s happened to Bennington. It was a really beautiful town years ago. My wife’s parents had a “camp” on Woodford Lake and we spent many summers weekends there. ❤️
Just like home!
What city? I have family in the Barre=Montpelier area.
Yep.
One aspect most don’t know about is that there was an incentive built into the “immigrant new business establishment” that was a creation of the Clinton administration in which immigrants “struggle with starting small businesses in a dominant white society” that provides them with subsidizes $10,000 to invest in those immigrant owned businesses and all they have to do to qualify is to make it appear that they were “updating or modernizing” those businesses which was framed as “a tax revenue surplus in exchange for the investments” free of charge. I’ve lost count of how many hotels and motels owned by immigrants that every single year close off a couple of rooms in those hotels placing “under construction” signs all around, to collect their $10,000 only to find that when those rooms become available again nothing has changed.
Idk how many years that free $10,000 taxpayer dollars are available but from what I’ve seen it seems unlimited
Idk how it works anymore but back in the day, under Clinton (Bill) when gas stations started going to foreigners, we learned there investment was 7 yr tax free. No freebies for citizens. I’m guessing it’s the same today with motels and every 7 years a new owner/family takes charge.
More like “who will take over our tech innovations, hire only their own, and circularly buy from each other exclusively to create false success, while turning what should be a massive engine for communication and freedom into a giant globalist surveillance machine?”
“The whole world as The Village?” – No.6 “That is my dream. What’s yours?” – No.2
“I’m going to escape, come back, wipe this place off the face of the Earth, obliterate it and you with it.” — No.6 (later in the same episode, not contiguous)
And 7-11’s?
3…2…1….TRO!
What will the “Supremes” do when a judge from another country and/or culture clsims authorite to countermand Presidential Determination of a “National Secutity Threat”
One unelected judge disloyal to the country and our Constitution (followed by 2 unelected appellate judges) has constitutional authority over the elected President?
National Emegency time…..
A bucket of tar.
A bushel of feathers.
A long, sturdy rail.
We the People.
Yes! Make tar and feathers great again!
Go modern. What about epoxy? With a nice feather arrangement. Feathers from birds of the native county of the arrogating judge(s)?
Where have you been?
Peter Brimelow and VDARE have sounded the alarm for years.
It’s as if the agenda of the American people has into focus. Will this be do little too late for the midterms.
Unfortunately yes. The text of the EO is to order a report to be delivered in 30 days, or mid October. There won’t be any action effective by November, and anything they try will just be struck by the Courts. This is a Legislature issue, and Congress hasn’t shown any MAGA or conservative bent at all.
Making this a national security issue takes it away from the Congress.
The district courts will ultimately lose again at the appellate level.
Yep.
Doesn’t matter. It’s now official. All the violators aren’t going to be rounded up and deported in 30, 60, or 90 days. This could take years. But the process has NOW begun. That’s the midterm takeaway.
President Trump has been known to make things happen, faster. Time will tell.
If you know about it and I know about it then other voters do too. A very small percentage of Americans are directly and personally affected job wise by the HB1. So having it take effect in October or today is immaterial to the midterms.
Wrong. We are all directly impacted by H1Bs through suppressed wages, higher taxes, higher housing and healthcare costs. Let alone the massive fraud these “immigrants” inflict upon our taxpayer supported programs.
Send them all back. Every last one of them.
Wrong democrat
Trump needs to focus on ending Iran, its been going on too long! End it now
I guess he should stop his focus on H1-B visa abuses and focus all his attention on ending the Iran war.
Lucky for us he can do more than one thing at a time. He’s already proved that.
He has superior executive skills.
Those who protest the loudest have a stake in this game.
Watch for the softer forms of protest in Media and NGOs and Big Tech and Congress.
These are the snakes who make no sound before they bite.
the loudest complainers will be the GOP and their paid mouthpieces in the fake-right media. The GOP has been selling-out America to foreigners for many decades. We know what the democrats are. Many people still don’t understand how wicked the GOP is.
I finally began to realize how wicked they are during Trump’s first term. That’s when I began to understand how corrupt the Bushies are, too.
Immigration Moratorium
Body blows to the anti-american elite keep on coming.
I voted for this! Big Tech will be mad!
This could also reshape politics in California and Texas, for the better.
I’m in corporate finance and for the last decade H1B has destroyed the career path.
Also H1B’s work like sales or indentured servants. It’s anti freedom and anti American.
It’s about time hope there is enough time to bring jobs back to Americans
https://revolver.news/2026/09/indian-americans-lean-very-far-left-on-key-issues-that-changes-the-immigration-debate/
FTA “So if we’re going to have a serious chat about immigration, then the political beliefs immigrants bring into the country, and the political coalitions they eventually join, matter. A lot. And that brings us to this very interesting data on Indian Americans…
These numbers show us that Indians are very politically engaged, and as a general rule, they’re also very far left.
Why are we bringing in nothing but future Democrats? Just stop all legal immigration until we get rid of all of Joe Biden’s walk ins!
Of course they’re hard left. The whole caste system clashes with the American spirit of social and economic mobility. The culture is top-down authoritarian – anyone who has worked with an Indian (H1B or naturalized) knows it’s yes yes yes from the inferiors but bullying tyranny if one is above you. The religion is fatalistic and stagnantly opposed to responsibility.
How else does a beautiful, revered river turn into a Mordor-like cascade of trash and sludge, never mind how they act “professionally” here.
Never mind the rape culture, the acid attacks on women & honor killings.
I’d love to see a list produced by the administration of the top ten H1B visa companies in the US. Maybe they have already released such a list, but I think people need to see it again and again. I spent over 30 years in technology/mobility telecom. What the President says in his release is fact. I and millions of others have seen it first hand.
I don’t need Fox News or Fox Business or CNN to tell me what the truth is. I saw it for myself. No spin required. Let’s wait and watch GOP heads start spontaneously exploding over this…………..
Yes I would love to see that list of companies. And screw you Brett Bear you POS Bush loving globalist.
Agree 100 percent.
Out of all the globalists, Baier is one of the most intelligent. He must be getting paid a lot to shovel the propaganda he dishes out.
The dumocrats steal money to distribute to their stooges who work as foot soldiers. It’s their business model. We’ve got to find ways to bring more voices to our side (and without making mistakes like Tucker). We also must find ways to recruit conservatives to bureaucratic jobs (especially vote counting). We need a czar for promoting MAGA supporters everywhere.
I’m not suggesting that we steal and support liars like the dumocrats do, but letting all these people spread trash is way beyond what we can tolerate. I’m thrilled the President kicked the most egregious news outlets from the White House.
Apparently Bret Baier recently sold his D.C. mansion to Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick for $25 million.
https://washingtonian.com/2024/12/20/brett-baiers-dc-house-sells-for-record-25-million-in-cash/
Here are the top 10 H-1B sponsoring companies in the US for FY 2025 (USCIS data):
Rank Company Approvals Industry
1 Amazon.com Services LLC 10,044 E-commerce / Cloud
2 Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) 5,505 IT Services
3 Microsoft 5,189 Technology / Software
4 Meta Platforms 5,123 Social Media / AI
5 Apple 4,202 Consumer Electronics
6 Google 4,181 Technology / AI
7 Cognizant Technology Solutions 2,493 IT Services
8 JPMorgan Chase 2,440 Finance / Banking
9 Walmart Associates 2,390 Retail / Tech
10 Deloitte Consulting 2,353 Management Consulting
Thanks. I could have guessed 8 out of 10.
Our company just sent 600+ IT jobs to #7 on that list and every week another new officer with an Indian name is announced while we cull the existing US staff. Private equity is driving it in our case despite the fact we have record revenues and profit-it’s just not enough revenue or profit for them.
Once any Indians are hired, only Indians will be hired.
Also, this:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2018/02/09/india-tried-to-stop-cheating-in-school-so-half-a-million-students-just-skipped-exams/
It’s definitely a national security risk to hire these people.
Americans should start boycotting all of these companies, no matter how painful it might be.
Many of us on CTH 6-8 years ago talked about this and tried really hard to boycott google. What you quickly learn is that it is part of EVERYTHING. If you do almost anything online it is inescapable.
Tata and Infosys are the two Indian companies breaking the law with impunity.
“Rankings based on certified Labor Condition Applications filed with the U.S. Department of Labor from FY 2020–FY 2026.”:
Amazon — 113113
Cognizant — 93085
Microsoft — 63252
Google — 61410
Tata Consultancy Services — 61171
Ernst & Young (EY) — 57791
Infosys — 44692
Deloitte — 38187
Apple — 30111
Meta — 26867
https://www.h1bscope.com/top-h1b-sponsors
…aaaaaaand judge issues injunction and the SCOTUS eventually takes up the case and overrules the executive and the New Democrat congress allows it all to continue.
Same old, same old
the lawfare model has always included the completely corrupt US courts and judges. They have been corrupt for decades, likely generations. It’s now all out in the open, if anyone cares to notice. Sadly, most folks don’t care. They are getting ready for another drunken NFL weekend…….
I most certainly care. I invite you to consider this:
https://www.usconstitutionalcouncil.org/us-constitutional-council/forum-council/nominating-judges/
along with the rest of my website.
The USSC has ruled very favorably for MAGA’s agenda. When they did rule against us the USSC gave specific remedies that Congress could enact to solve the problems.
It’s the District Courts that rule against us. The District Courts are 100% controlled by Congress.
So, PDJT and his administration should just give up and go cry in their beers?
It’s a good thing that you are not in their foxhole fighting for this nation.
Concerning the Elon Musk message. I a not aware of any business he started and continued without government (taxpayer) subsidy.
Not sure if he should hold himself us as the model american.
Prove it.
Musk never hid that he was an immigrant from Africa. Tesla did not start with government funding; it was founded with private capital from founders Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning, followed by major Series A investment led by Elon Musk in 2004. Automakers like Daimler provided subsequent early capital. As a US non-gasoline, electric car company, Tesla took out a $465 million Department of Energy loan in 2010 to buy the Freemont Factory and build the Model S, which was repaid ahead of schedule. Do you assert that loan repayment ahead of schedule is unamerican? Do you define a repaid loan a ‘subsidy’, while US Banks are given bigtime ‘loans’ at ~1% while charging US credit card customers 25+% interest?
Who else funds space launches? Who else funds tunnels under cities? [answer – mainly governemnt-funded] Musk forced the US government -NASA- to be ‘model American’, by accepting his ‘bid’ promising performance, or NO COST. Musk actually had to sue NASA to accept his bid to build working rockets, or he would not get paid. Doing what is specified in the contract, or do not get paid by the government is old-time American. An old “model American” concept that was anethma to the NASA beaurocrats.
Your other “American?” government contract ‘bidders’ want to get paid whether they accomplish the contract goals, OR NOT. (not model American). Typically “American” government contractors ‘win’ a contract, then find new things to put on the contract initially won by competitive bidding. With NASA compliance !!! So the “new things” change the contract to make it a “no bid” contract, at high no-bid cost. Delays and “overruns” are commonplace. These are your “model Americans”? NASA was a co-opted money source, which is not “model American”. Musk turned that around, and effectively made NASA somewhat more functional, like it used to be. That is American !!
Musk proposed actual performance meeting the NASA contract deliverables, or he would not get paid. NASA didn’t want to sign such a contract, but was forced to by litigation. Can you even imagine proving to an honest American Judge why an American-NASA would reject such a contract? Why was NASA so intent on being an open money spigot for just a few contractors which didn’t meet deadlines, with significant cost overruns? Check out the overrun costs yourself. Back-and-forth employment? Other stuff?
Anyway, Musk delivered performance to NASA, apparently quickly building an organization of engineers like the original American-talented NASA engineers and contractors who were able to go to the moon decades ago, with much less ‘tech’ available. His new SpaceX business is more like the original American “can do” competency than the current batch of beaurocrats. (remember Boeing using foreign programmers for its 737 upgrade? ). (remember Disney, originally an American, animation leader with American family-supported high profit, which went-woke, fired its animation staff and made tham train their foreign replacements or lose benefits, and put out woke unpopular films? Is Disney now ‘model American?) Isn’t Musk more like the original “model Americans” than the current Boeing and Disney?
I don’t understand the continuous anti-Musk propaganda. Maybe it is from the groups who disliked his voluntary efforts to show how easy it is to find up to $200billion fraud and waste in government spending? Or do not like his political contributions to GOP candidates? Or his ‘model American’ example of creating wealth by efficiently starting-from-scratch with new companies doing and making things, rather than by manipulating stock swings, interest rates, offshoring, corporate takeovers and destruction, stealing inventions and software from inventors and authors to lose our former technology lead, etc.
I didn’t like his f-you in the face statement about importing workers instead of hiring Americans.
I worked in software development and outside hiring had little to do with skills. They imported for cheap labor. Yes, once in a while we may need outside skills (for example maybe now for shipbuilding), but not often. I’m MAGA and want companies to hire Americans. Musk does not.
It was also concerning when he had a melt down in his fight with President Trump. He doesn’t handle being told “no” well.
This is also why Vivek Ramaswamy should not be in any position of power – he is 1000% for continuing H1B as is.
Musk has flaws, as does PDJT. As did Thomas Edison, Carnegie, Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Madison, Grant, Lincoln, Churchill, Rockefeller-Flagler, Ford, ect. who didn’t handle “no” very well either. Steve Jobs reportedly had a “reality distorting field” around himself to being told “no”. There were all flawed people, as we all are.
A dangerous and very effective tactic by those who are trying to destroy the US, is to focus on only the flaws of people whose positive accomplishments and influences should be greatly admired. For example, the spurious attacks on Lincoln, Washington, Jefferson etc for having (well treated) slaves in what were still feudal peonage times they did not create, and helped alleviate, are to deprive our culture they created of aspirational models for what they contributed.
Look around. Where are the aspirational models now that we have negative propaganda all the time? PDJT has ‘mean tweets’, so you would reject everything he works to accomplish to save the country? Hate PDJT => hate even cleaning crap off the statues, fixing leaks and algae in the reflecting pool, hate stopping crime and mayhem in DC. I don’t like foul language (mainly by radical leftists for emotional effect rather than rational discourse) now prominently degrading our culture. But I am not so stupid as to reject all admirable attributes of the offender.
Have you or anyoue in your family had a “melt down”? This issue you raise is somewhat like the radical leftist excommunicatus vitandus expulsion of anyone who doesn’t agree with EVERY issue and behavior of their hive minds. You might recall that Jefferson and Adams had extremely opposite views and opinons, yet respected each other and worked to create an aspirational civilization model.
Thank you!
Start here in Frisco, TX!!
Please go after the foreign student visa holders filling up our STEM studies at our highly vaunted colleges and universities. Put qualified American students in these programs. Same with sports scholarships.
Rubio is working on both of those issues 😉
Daimler Trucks and Cars you are now on notice. The hundreds of IT indians from Tata, Infosys, etc need to leave now. Prepare for heavy fines you anti-America thieves.
Garbageville / Riot-town, North Carolina, South Carolina, Birmingham Americans should be getting good news soon.
This is a main reason President Trump was elected. Everyone even considering voting for the democratic candidate in the midterms are insane.
Anyone who thinks they are making a statement by not voting is also insane.
I was hoping for this as an October Surprise. Now I can hope for bigger things for October Surprises!
I now hope for arrest of democrat state leaders in sanctuary states and cities.
That would be the icing on the cake!
This was one of the MAJOR reasons I wanted President Trump in office. I was personally affected by this H1B visa crap… lost my dream job AND my subsequent company because of this program specifically. I never worked in my profession again… and it REALLY PI***S me off 🙁
The other issue with H1Bs is that they do not pay FICA which means a huge loss of monies into Social Security and Medicare. I never see that mentioned….
Don’t give up, my friend. There may yet be a reckoning, and I think victims like you may yet have a voice and some hope of legal remedy.
“They are building an enforcement database. “The Secretary of Commerce, the Secretary of Education, and the Administrator of the Small Business Administration shall provide any relevant wage, employment, academic, industrial, or other economic information,” the order modestly added.
The dreadful significance is that companies who gamed the H-1B as a checkbox form just learned that the archives are open. Not “be good going forward.” We are reading the old ones.
The companies that under-described the jobs to lower the wage level, mislabeled a commodity coding job as a rare specialty, or ran the displace-and-replace shuffle while swearing on the record that U.S. workers were doing fine— those filings are now an evidence locker for an agency under a 30-day starting gun.
It’s a pincer movement. The first part makes future petitions dangerous if you’ve laid off any Americans. The second part makes past petitions dangerous if you already did.
The net effect is that companies won’t just have to stomach the additional cost of the new H-1B fees (assuming they survive the legal gauntlet), but they’ll also have to start digesting accurate job descriptions, and stop forcing Americans to train their foreign replacements.
Altogether, we can see how unfair the November criticisms were. No previous Administration before Trump has risked getting sideways with the Chamber of Commerce by curbing H-1B abuse. Not even close. No prior president has dared offend academia by crushing foreign student enrollment.”
Read more…
https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/nato-froze-over-saturday-september
Great post! It seems you are skilled/interested in this area. hope you will use your skills/interest to help make this new initiative a reality.
Thank you for your reply and for your words of encouragement. But to be clear, I’m just quoting the source, published on today’s Coffee & Covid, so I definitely can’t take credit for it. Although I framed the excerpt in quotation marks, I may not have done enough to make that clear.
I think the Trump Administration is getting off to a very strong start on this issue….they’ve issued the Executive Order and given it lots of big sharp teeth. Applications have already dropped as much as 80% in some cases, which indicates to me the former abusers of the system are laying low, which I think is very telling and a good sign.
I think once they start looking back and investigating some of what’s already gone on it will possibly open the way for civil litigation to be taken by folks like our own Observer SC, who has been so severely harmed by the past abuses of the h1b visa program. I sure hope so.
If you check out Jeff Childers’ report you’ll find a much wider picture than just the part I’ve quoted here.
I think The Trump Posse probably just set the National Chamber of Commerce’s hair on fire. 🤪
You did make it clear that you quoted, but I thought you did a good job of introducing the quote and what you picked to quote. I hope you find a way to pursue doing something with this issue because you already did a good job of making us aware of pertinent details.
Thank you, and I appreciate your enthusiasm. I will be sharing this with others, and I very much hope we’ll see some benefit to our compatriots here who’ve been so badly harmed by the grossly unfair and no doubt illegal practices that have now been stopped thanks to the President’s team.
I used to feel badly that for so many years Sundance was the only one who seemed to be doing all the heavy lifting when it came to research and analysis of the big picture problems we face. But since covid I’ve been really thankful to have also found Jeff Childers, who, like Sundance, never seems to miss a lick. They have different styles and approaches, but between the two of them and the community we share I feel very plugged in to the issues that matter, seven days a week.
What a blessing.
I understand how you feel. I was affected by H1B and DEI in 2013 at age 60. I was hoping for 6 more years with my company to retire comfortably. But I was forced to work for 9 more years (interrupted by Covid) at some other companies at a much reduced salary. Not only was I robbed of time and money, I was also robbed of the satisfaction of doing a job that I loved and was damned good at. I hate those lying bastards to this day.
Between this kind of crap, moving industry and manufacturing to China, the destruction of the education system, and covid, the people of this country have taken killing body blows in the 40 years.
Sometimes I wonder how the country is not crushed. Although it would have been if the corrupt democrats had won the last election. And it will be if we lose the midterms — that or a civil war.
Vote in the midterms and vote Republican!
” Vote in the midterms and vote Republican! ” AMEN! …and urge everyone you meet to do the same.
Oh? I thought we needed H-1B’s because Americans are too stupid to work tech jobs? You will redeem the visa Mr. President, SAAR!
Or as Bush W {spit, spit} said, “We have to hire immigrants to do the jobs that Americans won’t do.”
“We have to hire immigrants to steal the money that Americans won’t steal”
FTFY
How about naming the corporations involved in this anti-American worker fraud and abuse.
It’s on the way.
Included in this action:
“They are building an enforcement database. “The Secretary of Commerce, the Secretary of Education, and the Administrator of the Small Business Administration shall provide any relevant wage, employment, academic, industrial, or other economic information,” the order modestly added.”
And there’s more….it also looks backward to identify those that did do the dirty. Uh oh!
https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/nato-froze-over-saturday-september
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H1B was meant to bring skilled workers that really cannot be found in the US.
Instead it’s used not only for unskilled fraudulent workers to arrive, but to anchor themselves to the US by having children here.
Thus, the H1B premise is broken as it is really a path to citizenship. The H1B then cannot be allowed to exist if it breaks its own rules.
I will then continue by saying anyone who, through children, obtained citizenship did so by fraudulent means. Meaning their citizenship shall be revoked!!
Highly skilled “workers” (Citizens, not wage-controlled Peons-see the 13th Amendment!!) COULD be found, but not at VERY low-pay rates.
The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 created a visa for temporary foreign workers of “DISTINGUISHED MERIT AND ABILITY”. This US Citizen job-replacement program then got “dumbed down”. GWH Bush signed the Immigration Act of 1990, creating the H-1B visa for foreign nationals to work “specialty occupations” requiring a bachelor’s degree or higher => but the weasely “equivalency through work experience” is acceptable for the US Citizen job-replacement scam.
There are ~730,000 active H-1B visa holders in the US. Astoundingly, the US APPROVES ~400,000 H1B petitions annually, comprising ~141,000 new (initial) visas and ~258,000 renewals. “Renewals” means nothing has been done to train or attract US Citizens for those jobs during the entire tenure of the renewed visa. . The US issues about 140,000 Green Cards per year, about the same as the number of new H1B employees. WOW !! This is a National Emergency !!! We have lost over 700,000 jobs for bachelor degrees (or “work equivalence” – snicker, snicker) among our American citizenry. We lose about 140,000 jobs for new graduates and other capable citizens per year. Back in the 1950’s when we needed more engineers, Eisenhower signed the National Defense Education Act of 1958 to address this for US Citizens. It worked, but salaries had to be paid.
H1B employees, AND the US employer, each do not pay the 6.2% Social Security and 1.45% Medicare (FICA) tax, if the foreign H1B employees present a Certificate of Coverage from their home countries. While the SS and Medicare funds go broke, almost 15% of the salaries of over 700,000 US company employees is refused. This makes the foreign employee even less expensive than a US Citizen, and the lower-salary more valuable to the foreign employee. !!
Back when this scandal was created, what were the actual ‘skilled workers” who could not be found? The US had a high level of highly skilled citizens. There were a few highly skilled people who were foreign (but already here). John von Neumann, Enrico Fermi, Albert Einstein, Leo Szilard, Edward Teller, Robert Fano, etc. But we quickly built our own skilled worker supremacy. If any skills are missing domestically, we need to correct that, instead of making it worse.
Those who seek “highly skilled workers” not available in the US should have to precisely define the skill(s), and file written evidence UNDER OATH and subject to 18 USC 1001 (false sttements) as to how tha proposed H1B foreigner meets those skills. Those defined skills (not the potential employee skill description) must be posted on a federal database, where any job applicant can access it. If a US Citizen, after the employer has employed the foreign employee, has such skills, the US citizen can submit those skills to the EEOC which can anonymously request a statement under oath about why the US Citizen qualifications do not meet the posted skill description. The issue is not whether the foreign employee is a ‘better person”, or fits in better with the already foreign department. THe issue is whetehr the US Citizen had tehe defined skills.)
Employeers must do much more than put a vague “help wanted” advertisement in an obscure publication that is not read by job-seekers. Which is what is done now. And be required to contribute an amount determined to be a “fair salary for that skill” to capable universities to a fund used to teach that skill.
I’ve thought about starting a site called “Laws we need” as a futile endeavor to waste my time.
Boeing was once the gold standard for engineering and building quality aircraft. And then they got management that valued the bottom line instead of safety and quality control — and started outsourcing everything with no real oversight. That’s when you started getting planes that had doors flying open in midair, built and serviced by $9 an hour engineers in India. This article is an eye-opening flashback as to what happened:
https://www.industryweek.com/supply-chain/article/22027840/boeings-737-max-software-outsourced-to-9-an-hour-engineers
Agreed. The engineers were removed from authority by the power-hungry. Same with NASA’s Space Shuttle Challenger disaster. Bureaucrats took control over the engineers. Wre learned a bureaucrat can not compel a rubber O-ring not to freexe at too-low temperatures, just because it is politically important not to delay launch. Engineers know a glass transition point cannot be negotiated with an O-ring, and it cannot be intimidated by rank.
The US was still the “gold standard”(but still declining with increasing top-down concentration) before clinton, obama and biden. There were even some partially-honest congresscritters way back then.
This is a direct shot right between the eyes to the UniParty and their “Tech Broligarchy” masters (I wonder what JD Vance thinks of this).
This is winning! God bless President Trump-greatest President since Washington!!
“I wonder what JD Vance thinks of this”
Which is why I don’t want to see him on the 2028 ballot.
His allies are all tech bros who abuse H1B and his wife is Indian.
He is not what he seems.
It’s high time to treat offshore labor as an import subject to tariffs
If the HB1 visa law was enforced to the letter of the law I would guess 95% of the visas would be cancelled. The US Chamber of Commerce would howl louder than they ever have before. Congress members would be having seizures on the floor !
Seizures from seeing their empty political ‘donation’ wallets?
Just hire Americans! It shouldn’t be so hard!
Today’s Coffee & Covid has a terrific explanation, with the article reminding us of how much the “blackpillers” whined over PDJT’s perceived H1B betrayal. I certainly recall reading those types of comments here.
“This is why I keep telling you to ignore the blackpillers. When I refer to blackpillers, I’m not talking about Democrats. We expect Democrats to lie and be impossible to please. I’m talking about folks who claim to be conservatives but always seem to find something to criticize— and they are always wrong.
“It’s not that blackpillers always overreact (though that is also true). It’s not that they are being unfair or stingy by failing to give Trump credit when he’s earned it. It’s that they are consistently dead wrong, and wrong so badly that it completely inverts the truth. Assuming good faith —granted, a stretch— they are their own worst enemies.
“Think of it this way. Assume blackpillers’ red line is the H-1B issue (any issue works, but stick with this one). Their ‘solution’ to get what they claim they want —eliminating H-1B abuse— is to fracture MAGA and force a midterm loss, so as to “teach Republicans a lesson.” But in reality, they are sabotaging the one administration in U.S. history that actually invested the political capital to do the exact thing they claim to want.
“I’m not leveling accusations. But I am questioning good faith. Nobody who predicted the Great H-1B Betrayal has issued a correction. They’ve just moved on to the next betrayal. There’s always a next one.
Cough up the black pill. Whenever you read some social media polemic about the latest Trump betrayal (or Kennedy, or Bessent, or whoever), presume it is a well-packaged distortion, or an outright lie, until we get a chance to put their claims under the microscope.”
Hahaha. And PDJT has completely resolved the H1B visa.
Its a good article and starts off with the amazing Greenland deal as the means to unraveling NATO, and why now, the NATO countries have realized that with Greenland off the table (as it had always been the ‘checkmate’), reality is setting in.
https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/nato-froze-over-saturday-september?publication_id=463409&post_id=216455227&isFreemail=true&r=209fvb&triedRedirect=true
Apparently, very soon, “all NATO base belong to Greenland“
Yah, Baby!
That’s what I’m talking about!
Best president ever!
America First! 🇺🇸
❤️🤍💙
Absolutely enraging all the amazing good things President Trump has done, and almost nothing has been cemented in legislation by the traitorous backstabbing and frequently vacationing Congress.
The time grows shorter and shorter in which to confirm these necessary actions with the very high risk that our bicameral majorities will be lost or stolen soon.
Some podcaster who sells merch could probably do a thriving business selling Thune voodoo dolls with a box of ten penny nails.
The Department of Labor OIG has neither the investigators nor the budget to investigate…
“fraud, corruption and abuse within the H1B visa system as a “national security threat.”
The OIG has 5 investigators for California, Oregon and Washington State and 60 in the entire country to investigate this…?
Amazon — 113113
Cognizant — 93085
Microsoft — 63252
Google — 61410
Tata Consultancy Services — 61171
Ernst & Young (EY) — 57791
Infosys — 44692
Deloitte — 38187
Apple — 30111
Meta — 26867
This will end 7-11 stores!
FINALLY!!!! THank God, our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, for Trump’s hard workd to preserve our nation and our citizens!
AMEN!!!
We probably would have gotten to this point a lot sooner, if Charlie Kirk had not been assassinated.
Saying the US doesn’t have the workers to do any of these jobs is bullshit. We don’t need any foreign workers, send them packing.
Corporate greed, to enrich CEOs, upper management and shareholders. To hell with all of them!
Are there qualified American workers ready to step in and take their positions when these foreigners get kicked out of the USA?
American workers were forced to train their foreign worker replacements. Turn about is FairPlay, if necessary.
More qualified than the H1-B were when they entered
I guess our government is giving out visas to companies that do not even exist…..
What do they even mean by a “Crackdown”?
Maybe they should crackdown on their employees who grant visas?
Something is seriously wrong.
U.S. Department of Labor Inspector General Leads On-the-Ground Crackdown on H-1B Visa Fraud in Dallas—Advancing the Nationwide InitiativeAugust 13, 2026
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
U.S. Department of Labor, Office of Inspector General
WASHINGTON — Anthony P. D’Esposito, Inspector General of the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL), traveled to Dallas, Texas this week to meet with the DOL Office of Inspector General (OIG) regional offices of audit and investigations, and advance the ongoing nationwide probe into H-1B visa fraud.
During the visit, the Inspector General conducted field checks at several locations tied to companies that have received hundreds of approved H-1B petitions. At one multi-story building housing numerous businesses linked to more than 500 approved H-1B applications, door-to-door inquiries were carried out. Many of the offices showed clear signs of inactivity: doors locked, lights off, and little to no evidence of active business operations.
“We are sending a clear message: fraud in our foreign labor programs will not be tolerated,” said Anthony P. D’Esposito, Inspector General, U.S. Department of Labor. “This investigation goes beyond paperwork—it’s about safeguarding the integrity of our system and ensuring American workers remain the priority. When the system is abused, hardworking Americans pay the price. We will not stand by while jobs are taken from Americans and H-1B fraud fuels criminal enterprises. Thanks to the dedication of our investigators and auditors, we are actively responding to every hotline complaint, pursuing every lead, and holding offenders accountable.”
This effort builds on the broader initiative to combat foreign labor visa fraud, announced by the DOL OIG in July, in coordination with President Donald Trump and Vice President J.D.Vance’s White House Task Force to Eliminate Fraud. Through aggressive interagency collaboration and executive support, the initiative is designed to eliminate vulnerabilities, prosecute offenders, and ensure American workers are not disadvantaged by fraudulent activity.
https://www.oig.dol.gov/public/Press%20Releases/OIG-Press-Release-081326.htm
Why did he wait so long? For those of us in Texas we are being invaded by the fraudsters. They have taken over so many of our small towns, along with other muslims. We need them all deported, yesterday would be good.
Name the abusing companies.
President Trump needs to throw in the OPT visa with this action….or did he?
Until they institute a fee like $100-150k per year to use each H1B, nothing will be done to get these companies hiring Americans. They would rather have low IQ pajeets doing shoddy work unless it really hurts them in the pocketbook.
“low IQ pajeets doing shoddy work”
AI is going to eliminate those positions very soon.
It’s not just individual companies. There are entire industries built around H1-B labor just as there are entire industries built around illegal alien labor.
It’s important to understand that there are two sides to this coin. Removing the immigrants will reduce labor supply and therefore cause wages to rise. But those same industries built around cheap labor will raise prices to offset the increased cost of US workers. It’s still better in the long run, but we should be making sure people understand this.
It’s really time to invoke a National Security Emergency.
Way too many uncontrollable issues on the table right now to allow this to crap continue.
Elections
Immigration
AI
…I don’t know all of them, please help me out.
I think the AI fight is about to get even worse.
There are millions of H1B visa holders here. They each get 3 year visas so perhaps what we’ll see 1st is visas not being renewed.
Excellent. Continue down the alphabet of fictious visa types focusing on the same 90% of the problem country. Can, EU, UK++ countries should be run in parallel. Wicked bad in NJ.
Let me know as soon as the start so we can count if them their family, their mother-in-law‘s their father-in-law‘s their cousins and their uncles are included the same ones that were the anchor babies they brought over because of the H1B! Just like with Iran OK I believe you but now I need to verify and see several million deported! Indians have overwhelmed our country at every location. Including the other illegals.
What about the doge cuts that were all refunded!?
How about reduce govt spending due to all the fraud by 80-95%. Everyone must reapply in person!!
GOD BLESS ,DONALD J. TRUMP!!! OUR PRESIDENT, GOD ,FAMILY,COUNTRY AND FLAG. LOVE THE U.S.A.
I deeply appreciate Trump’s attention to this matter.
There’s a meme out there showing the phrase “There aren’t that many Indians” with two speakers – George Custer and IT CEOs.