H-1B visas and other work visa programs have become not a method for a select few foreigners to supplement American jobs, but the main way that many major companies and universities fill their job vacancies at the expense of American workers. New congressional legislation could put a stop to that, and it can’t come soon enough.
On June 4, Rep. Chip Roy (R-Tex.) introduced the American White-Collar Worker Jobs Act to ax the highly problematic H-1B lottery system, prevent employers from engaging in mass layoffs to hire foreign visa holders, and heighten scrutiny for companies hiring visa holders in bad faith. “For its nearly forty-year history, the H-1B visa has been abused, allowing employers to routinely sideline American STEM workers in favor of cheap foreign labor, while masking layoffs and wage suppression as ‘shortages.’ It’s time to end this lottery-based pipeline and replace it with a system that prioritizes merit, enforces real wage standards, and puts American white-collar workers first,” Roy explained.
There’s plenty of fraud we know of even without intense investigation. An accusation from former U.S. diplomat Mahvash Siddiqui, originally made about six months ago, is resurfacing in a Fox News clip on X. Siddiqui said that between 80% and 90% of Indians’ H-1B visa applications between 2005 and 2007 had fraudulent information on them. Not only that, Indian authorities have found a network to provide fake degrees to applicants, tens of thousands of cheap false degrees to help them obtain H-1B visas.
🚨 OMG. A MASSIVE India H-1B visa fraud ring has just been busted...nearly 90% PERCENT of India's visa applications contain FRAUDULENT INFORMATION
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) June 6, 2026
100,000 THOUSAND counterfeit certificates have been seized 🤯
"Law enforcement in India claim it has uncovered a network of… pic.twitter.com/vGz6uZSahW
President Donald Trump added a $100,000 requirement per high-skilled applicant for the visas, which supposedly was going to bring more money to America while allowing in only the most elite workers. Aside from the obvious anti-Americanism of excluding all but wealthy elites, the price tag doesn’t even operate the way it was intended to operate. There are literally companies, whole industries, in China and India that are focused on shipping desperate workers from their countries to our country via H-1B and other visas, and they are willing to pay $100,000 each in order to replace American workers and make our companies dependent on their labor.
The “visa cartel” has long done a booming business. Nowadays, tech companies are even firing many of their American workers, according to Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-Miss.), to replace them with foreign workers who sometimes accept lower wages. In fact, companies and universities and hospitals are not preserving these jobs for foreign workers because they absolutely cannot find Americans who will take jobs or are qualified for them. Many employers will deliberately advertise impossible standards to get around the loophole that they have to advertise to Americans first.
Then when no one in America meets the deliberately preposterous standards, the companies hire foreigners instead. Many universities are specifically advertising jobs for H-1B visa holders without bothering to hide their lack of interest in American applicants.
As of Nov. 2025, Fox News reported that 80% of H-1B visa holder jobs were going for entry-level or junior-level jobs. In other words, these are not highly skilled workers brought here to do jobs Americans can’t. These are low-skilled workers who are entering bottom-level jobs that Americans could take equally well.
