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Posted on 10/30/2025 3:45:04 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
When the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) announced Project Firewall on September 19, media coverage focused on the press release—a pledge to “protect American jobs” by cracking down on H-1B visa abuse.
A month later, the program’s impact is already being felt—not through formal prosecutions, but through the quiet compliance panic spreading across U.S. companies that depend on high-skilled foreign talent.
Newsweek spoke to legal experts, immigration attorneys and Department of Labor officials who described how Project Firewall is already reshaping corporate compliance, legal strategy and the balance between enforcement and innovation in America’s high-skilled visa system.
Why It Matters
Project Firewall marks a turning point in how the United States polices high-skilled immigration. For the first time, the Labor Department can launch its own investigations into H-1B visa use without waiting for worker complaints, shifting the system from reactive to proactive enforcement.
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Under the Project Firewall initiative, the Labor Department can open inquiries based on credible third-party tips—not only formal complaints from workers—and coordinate enforcement with the Department of Justice (DOJ), Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS).
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Now maybe it won’t take me 8 months to find another software engineering job at age 61 despite a stellar resume’.
-SB
“A company should have tp prove there are no US citizens that cannot take or do the job.”
That is already the law. No one prosecutes violations.
Let’s stop the outsourcing of customer service to India also!! Can’t understand the reps and are no help a lot of times. Plus they have our information which I don’t like.
See post #8. That graphic gets spammed all over FR from the same poster several times a day, every day. I just scroll past anything by that poster.
Trump needs to do the same with those offshoring jobs. Many of the jobs being lost to AI are actually just being off-shored.
New H-1B Visa Crackdown Is Already Positively Reshaping the US Jobs Market
Fixed.
Far past time to stop this job-stealing program that Trump himself has said is corrupt and abused:
"I remain totally committed to ending widespread rampant H-1b abuse..I will end forever the use of H-1b as a cheap labor program"
-- President Trump, 2016
“We may need to think about some kind of tariff or fee or unfavorable tax treatment for offshoring services.”
i’ve always believed that a Federal head tax should be levied on every service worker in a foreign country who provides service to USA citizens via voice, chat, SMS or email, whether directly employed or subcontracted out ...
High five!
Keep the faith, brother!
With regards to customer “service”...if I get a call from someone I can’t really understand over the phone, I just hang up on them, & I think most of my neighbors do too. And I will do the same even if I DO understand them & it is something I’m against or don’t need or trust.
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