Posted on 09/25/2025 9:52:42 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
Big U.S. companies are facing heightened scrutiny from Capitol Hill over their use of foreign employees on H-1B visas, with lawmakers raising concerns about layoffs and slumping job prospects for Americans.
On Wednesday evening, Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R., Iowa) and Ranking Member Dick Durbin (D., Ill.) sent letters to the country’s largest users of H-1B visas—including Amazon, Apple and JPMorgan Chase—asking them to explain why they continue to hire thousands of H-1B visa holders while also cutting other jobs.
The senators asked for detailed information on how many H-1B workers the companies employ, what wages they are paid, and whether American workers have been displaced in the process. The letters cited reporting by the Journal about the weak tech job market.
The move comes less than a week after President Trump announced an overhaul of the H-1B program, including a new $100,000 fee for companies sponsoring foreign workers. That move caused panic for some companies worried they could retroactively be on the hook for fee payments. They mobilized HR teams and lawyers to address employee concerns and ensure compliance.
The H-1B system, created in 1990, is the primary pathway for foreign professionals to work in the U.S. Roughly 700,000 people currently live in the country on H-1B visas, according to a National Foundation for American Policy analysis of government data, with technology firms among the biggest users. Most H-1B holders are from India and China.
Amazon, the largest H-1B sponsor in the U.S., won approval for more than 14,000 new hires on the visa in fiscal 2025—the most of any company—even as it has announced layoffs affecting tens of thousands of jobs in recent years.
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"Because, FU America." ~ Jeff Bezos
Where have they been for the last several decades? Oh yeah, stuffing their snouts full of pork at the public trough.
End the entire program.
It’s a scam from top to bottom and side to side.
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Why? Cause they lie and game the system - with the full support of the renegade congress.
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“Hey, marcus, hey, how about a little something, you know, for the effort, you know. Like your pal Engraved”
700,000 is a lie. Think multiples of that. Try looking for an official number. There is no official number. This is a news media “talking point” number.
Agreed, end it now.
“Roughly 700,000 people currently live in the country on H-1B visas, according to a National Foundation for American Policy analysis of government data, with technology firms among the biggest users. Most H-1B holders are from India and China.”
It’s obscene.
As a company’s citizen workforce is trimmed, the exact number of their H1b slots should expire at the same time.
Think about all the anchor babies spawned, too.
Agreed
Just like they claimed we had 11 million illegals for 25 years.
If the democrat Senators didn’t have the chamber room they wouldn’t have a place to get some sleep after hammering booze in the buildings bar.
They claim it is to get workers that they can’t find in the US which is a bald face lie. They get them to drive down wages of Americans doing that job.
“how many H-1B workers the companies employ, what wages they are paid, and whether American workers have been displaced in the process.”
If the role of consultants is not explicitly included, the numbers mean nothing. There are 2 levels of consulting.
Deloitte, Accenture, PWC, etal “consult”. In turn these “consulting companies” contract with “body shops” who provide the bodies. The “body shops” are often layered 3 or 5 deep.
Also of interest is the location of the bodies. Example:
GA Secretary of State contracted with FOD-Friends of Dodd to get HAVA money. In turn FOD contracted with a body shop to do the actual design and coding of the Voter Registration system used in 2020. The body shop allegedly had its bodies in CT to do the work for GA. But only 2 of the 20+ on the project were actually in CT. Repeatedly the body in CT had to fly to India for the funeral of a grandmother or grandfather. We used to joke about how many funerals he attended.
He would get on the phone meeting from India. It was clear he was in the same room as all his developers. And when he was on a phone call from CT it was clear he was not in the same room as his developers.
In all the discussion of the 2020 election in GA I am the only one who has been pointing this out for over 10 years now. Others discussing the 2020 GA election never mention that the software was developed by those who did not live in, nor understood the laws and customs of the US or GA.
Until the complex relationships, often times intentionally complex, are discussed completely, the partial nips are going to be effective?
PS in the 2015-2019 period the GA voter registration story was fed to only 2 GA media personalities, as far as I know...Phil and Eric.
They’ll investigate until payment is made. Nothing will be done.
#OperationChimpOut on Twitter
14,000 visas for 2015. Next year it’ll cost Amazon 1.4 BILLION to get the same. I like this 100k thing.
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