The H-1B program is a SCAM. Most people, especially policymakers in Washington, still don’t understand this betrayal…

The H-1B program is a SCAM. Most people, especially policymakers in Washington, still don’t understand this betrayal of the American worker. Here’s why it’s time to end the H-1B program.🧵

Last month, I called out Xbox / Microsoft for firing thousands of Americans and replacing them with foreign workers through the H-1B visa program. But they’re not the only offenders. Many of our biggest companies, especially in the tech industry, are doing the exact same thing! In 2024 alone: - Google laid off 951 Americans while bringing in more than 1,000 H-1B workers. - Apple did the same, cutting 735 jobs for our fellow citizens while bringing on 864 foreign replacements. - Intel eliminated 2,887 U.S. jobs all while getting approval for 851 H-1B visas.

This is bad in the macro. It is insane when you look at particular examples. @SenEricSchmitt has flagged H-1B applications for a dog trainer in Connecticut at $45k and an "assistant golf professional" in St. Augustine, Florida for $35k. Daily Wire’s @lukerosiak has exposed a mechanical company in Michigan filing an H-1B visa to hire a plumbing estimator. According to his reporting, in FY2024 more than 1,000 construction managers were hired via the H-1B program. These are the jobs no American is supposedly willing to do.

According to @LayoffAI H-1B tracker, since 2015, H-1B visas have displaced: - 81,563 electrical engineers - 54,622 industrial engineers - 46,648 civil engineers Again and again, these foreign workers are taking jobs in blue collar industries like construction and manufacturing that Americans would gladly do.

All told, estimates suggest that today more than 700k foreign workers are living in America on H-1B visas. Add in spouses and dependents, not to mention the hundreds of thousands of foreign students who are working in American companies under the OPT program, and the numbers are astronomical.

Each one of these workers takes jobs and drives down wages for Americans. As I wrote for @FoxNewsOpinion, last year @DHSgov reported that 83% of H-1B visas petitioned for between 2020 and 2024 were for entry and junior level employees with salaries set well below the local median wage. And this March, @USDOL found that the minimum wages employers are required to pay H-1B workers are set $19,000 lower than what U.S. workers earn in the same occupations and locations.

The other group being hurt the most are young Americans — the kids we told to go to college and learn to code. According to @USTechWorkers, in 2023 alone, 134,153 Americans graduated with computer science degrees. That same year: 75,428 new H-1B visas for computer scientists. Add in foreign students on OPT and spouses on H-4 work permits, and the total hits 121,550. For every ten Americans who graduated, we authorized nine foreigners to compete for the same jobs.

These foreign workers aren’t leaving either. Under current law, every H-1B worker who has applied for a green card, but is stuck in the processing backlog, may remain in the country indefinitely. Right now, India — where more than 70% of H-1Bs come from — has a green card backlog of more than 1 million people. Predictions suggest that it will take decades to potentially more than a century to sort through this backlog. So most of these H-1B workers are here to stay. They can (and will) renew indefinitely.

Replacing American workers with cheap foreign workers is stealing the American Dream from a generation of talented Americans so corporations can reduce their labor costs. We can’t let that happen. End the H-1B scam once and for all and put the American worker first!