Posted on 10/25/2025 7:08:26 AM PDT by Red Badger
Who knew that Walmart, of all places, would prove the wisdom and justice of President Donald Trump’s economic policies?
According to Bloomberg, the retailing giant has suspended all job offers to candidates whose employment with the chain would require a $100,000 fee for H-1B visas under rules implemented last month by the Trump administration.
With 2,390 H-1B visa holders in its employ, Walmart would have had to shell out nearly $240 million had it hired those foreign workers under the new rules.
“Walmart is committed to hiring and investing in the best talent to serve our customers, while remaining thoughtful about our H-1B hiring approach,” a Walmart spokeswoman said, per Bloomberg.
The Trump administration has rightly argued that employers abuse the H-1B visa system so as to import cheap foreign labor.
In this case, however, the foreign labor in question might not qualify as “cheap.”
Indeed, the new visa fees mostly affect Walmart’s corporate workforce, per Bloomberg.
From the perspective of Trump’s Make America Great Again (MAGA) movement, that qualifies as even better news. After all, in that case those 2,390 jobs would become high-paying American jobs.
From a broader perspective, too, one marvels at the irony of Walmart as the exemplar of Trump’s wisdom.
Who can forget, for instance, the Walmart-related mockery Trump supporters received at the hands of disgraced FBI agent Peter Strzok, who expressed his disdain for the president’s voters in 2016 text messages to equally disgraced former FBI lawyer Lisa Page?
“Just went to a Southern Virginia Walmart. I could smell the Trump support,” Strzok texted Page in Aug. 2016, per Newsweek.
More recently, Trump-hating ABC News propagandist George Stephanopoulos tried to elicit anti-Trump comments from Walmart CEO John Furner.
Instead, Furner confirmed the brilliant success of the president’s tariff policies.
“About two-thirds of what we sell is either made, grown, or assembled here in the United States,” the CEO told a dismayed Stephanopoulos on Tuesday’s episode of ABC’s “Good Morning America.”
Thus, Trump’s tariffs gave Walmart an incentive to sell American products.
In like manner, the president’s new $100,000 H-1B visa fee gave the retail giant an incentive to freeze foreign hirings.
It is almost as if Trump knows what he is doing. And American workers, including Strzok’s smelly Walmart people, will reap the benefits.
This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.
In the past when there were foreign invaders we would have a war.
“In the past when there were foreign invaders we would have a war.”
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Now they are allowed to use our freedoms against us.
i heard they’re going to exploit L1 visas now...
The default setting to change that thinking needed to be disrupted.
What’s this supposed to mean? Foreign workers are invading us?
I’m somewhat entrenched among the Walmart foreign workers. Let’s talk
Morning my friend.
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Half the employees at the 2 Walmarts I frequent speak foreign languages to each other.....there’s something basically un-American about that IMO.
I worked in a large corporation that brought in many Indians for engineering positions. I understand, but don’t agree that we need foreign engineering, but just why does Walmart need Indians for corporate positions? We can get the same worthless paperpushers here in the US without having to import them.
Indian paper-pushers will work for half of what American paper-pushers will..........
“Trump-hating ABC News propagandist George Stephanopoulos tried to elicit anti-Trump comments from Walmart CEO John Furner.”
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Somebody needs to squash that little weasel once and for all.
Not 1/100 as unAmerican as “Press 1 for English. Press 2 for Spanish.”
That I can believe.
We had Indian engineers that stayed with the company but moved back to India. Their salary was then adjusted to reflect what they would been payed in India, about 60% of their US salary.
The self checkout at one of the grocery store chains I go to does that.....ticks me off to no end.
I just do not see any job at Walmart, which cannot be filled by American!
Obviously, Walmart does not have any, now.
If they had, they would pay that $100,000 fee!
Every Wal-Mart checker here is a raghead.
Its probably computer people. They run accounting programs on their registers overnight from a central point (Bentonville maybe), The computers act like they are going nuts. that was just my store, so figure out that over thousands of stores, and not just inventory/sales, and there you go.
Our Wal-mart is practically all self-checkout. Only one cashier and a couple watchers..............
Our Wal-mart is practically all self-checkout. Only one cashier and a couple watchers..............
Nice part time jobs for seniors and high schoolers.
Allegedly, these corporations simply had to import people because they couldn’t find a qualified American.
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