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Senator Eric Schmitt@SenEricSchmitt · Sep 25, 2025

This is outrageous. Some U.S. companies are using H-1B visas to staff their DEI offices. I've reviewed numerous…

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A U.S. official criticizes employers for using H-1B visas to hire foreign workers for DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) positions at universities, hospitals, and other institutions, arguing this violates the program's intent to fill specialty occupation shortages and calling for USCIS to address the abuse.

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    This is outrageous. Some U.S. companies are using H-1B visas to staff their DEI offices. I've reviewed numerous examples of hospitals, universities and other employers hiring foreign H-1B workers as DEI bureaucrats. I'm urging USCIS to work with us to fix this. 🧵

  2. #2

    Documents we reviewed show a range of U.S. employers have sought to hire foreign H-1B workers to fill their DEI positions. For example, Yale New Haven Health filed Labor Condition Applications (LCA) for H-1B visas for the role of “Diversity and Inclusion Specialist” in 2021:

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    Carnegie Mellon University filed a H-1B LCA for the position of “Associate Dean of Diversity, Inclusion, Climate & Equity” in 2021. Trustees of Dartmouth College filed for a job called “Program Manager, Diversity, Equity & Inclusion” in 2023. That's just a few—the list goes on.

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    Examples range from large banks and law firms to universities, healthcare systems, and even municipal park districts. Obviously, DEI positions are plainly non-technical and ideological in nature, and appear to fall outside the “specialty occupation” intent of the H-1B statute.

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    More to the point, in light of everything we know about DEI, it's alarming that American employers appear to be importing foreign workers to work in these roles — placing non-Americans in positions where they are tasked with policing the speech and thought of our own citizens.

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    As I said earlier this month, the abuse of the H-1B system is undermining the interests of American workers and citizens. As we know, DEI is a toxic and anti-American institution in its own right. The marriage of the two is beyond the pale.

    Senator Eric Schmitt@SenEricSchmitt · Sep 3, 2025

    The H-1B visa was sold as a way to keep America "competitive." Instead, it imported millions of foreign nationals to replace American workers—and transferred entire industries into the hands of foreign lobbies. "Legal" immigration can harm Americans too.

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    The H-1B program’s stated purpose was to address specialty occupation shortages—not to undercut American workers or import leftist bureaucrats from abroad. The fact that the program is being used to staff DEI offices is further evidence that it's not being used for that purpose.

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    Rather than recruiting genuinely exceptional top-level talent, in many cases the H-1B visa is now regularly used to staff middle management bureaucracies. Rather than 160+ IQ rocket scientists, it's being used to import HR managers, customer service representatives, and so on.

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    I'm looking forward to working with USCIS and the rest of the Trump administration to fix this. You can read my full letter to USCIS Director Edlow below. schmitt.senate.gov/media/press-re…