Posted on 10/19/2025 9:04:44 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
Donald Trump aide Harmeet Dhillon, the Indian-origin assistant attorney general for civil rights at the US Department of Justice, reacted to a viral post on an apparent H-1B scam and outrightly rejected it as "illegal". The post claimed that some tech positions are only being advertised in local newspapers so that no one can see them, and they can hire H-1Bs. "A reader from Connecticut shares job listings for tech positions from local newspapers that they intend to fill with Indian H-1Bs," the post said.
"None of these jobs can be applied for online. If you want to become a Senior Data Analyst for Black and Decker, you have to pick up a copy of the Sunday paper. This is intentional. These companies advertise jobs only in the paper---which nobody under the age of 75 reads---solely because they're legally required to post the job SOMEWHERE before they can hire H-1Bs. Since nobody applies---because nobody reads the paper---they can then go to the government and be like, "We couldn't find any Americans for the job! Pretty please give us Indians [which we'll pay pennies to and make them work 18-hour days]!"
"We need new federal regulations to stop this. It's a clear fraud being perpetuated on the American people," the viral post said.
"This is not to hire an H1B. They've already hired him. He's been working there for years. This is to start his application for a green card," one comment said.
(Excerpt) Read more at timesofindia.indiatimes.com ...
ENTIRE PROGRAM WAS WRONG FROM THE BEGINNING
What the government should do is that anytime one of these companies claims they cannot find someone, is to post it to a government website for 90 to 180 days to see if anyone applies. Then, if there are no applicants, should the H-1B application be considered.
It was not long ago that most companies found workers via local advertising. There was no internet. There was no digital world and things happened locally... Not on a worldwide web.
In the case of H1 visa’s then maybe the rules need to be different.
The positions were professional positions paying low six figures, and yet they all included this statement about hours. And the verbiage about hours was always the same, verbatim, which made no sense for positions at that level, which naturally would include hours beyond 40 hours/week.
I later learned from a senior HR person that these were positions for which the employer had already identified an immigrant hire, but for which they had to go through the motions (for the then-existing immigration law requirements) of determining that they could not find US citizen candidates for the position.
So essentially, every time you saw an otherwise interesting position that had this seemingly anomalous comment about hours in the last line, you knew not to apply for it, it was already a position dedicated to some immigrant applicant.
End it now and deport the ones already here.
I like the idea of mandatory posting on a government website for 90 to 180 days.
I also think any foreigner (H-1B) who is eventually hired must cost the hiring company $100,000 in tax to the US government.
I also think On The Job training should be incentivized. If a job is posted on the US job site, and some American applies but is not “perfect” I think it should be very hard to reject the American applicant. Train them. Help them be worthy of the job. Only under extraordinary circumstances should the company be allowed to hire a non-American. And then it will cost them an extra $100,000.
This ought to also trickle down to the US education system. If good American workers are so very hard to find, then reform the colleges and reform the High Schools. Young adults ought to have good skills and if they don’t, it’s because the school systems have failed. So fix that.
END THE H1B INDIAN SCAM IMMEDIATELY! Revoke and deport all that have entered using it in the past five years. The only to correct the damage done to our communities culture and economies of the middle class.
“The post claimed that some tech positions are only being advertised in local newspapers so that no one can see them,“
I’m convinced they’re also doing this on the major AM radio stations in NY. They describe the job, pay and responsibilities which sound to convoluted and exacting that it’s ridiculous, and then supply a full paragraph of contact info and numbers that no one outside of a Sheldon Cooper could possibly copy. Been hearing these things for twenty years.
It's almost like they never intended them to be filled by Americans.
I bet if the DOJ audited them they would find that not only were there no Americans hired but that other job offerings advertised and or posted internally, or on jobs boards were never meant to be filled.
Wouldn't that constitute some kind of fraud?
Can you say RICO?
In June & July I did not have over 3 email from “recruiters”.
Since Sept 15 I have had over 3 email per day from “recruiters”. All recruiters are Indian. When talking to them the delay in phone response would indicate some are in India. Most speak no understandable American English. (I have worked beside many Indians in IT. Most are understandable unlike these “recruiters”.
Sometimes the job description is so vague that the job and company could be anyone. Sometimes the job description is specific and the end client is obvious.
In June & July I did not have over 3 email from “recruiters”.
Since Sept 15 I have had over 3 email per day from “recruiters”. All recruiters are Indian. When talking to them the delay in phone response would indicate some are in India. Most speak no understandable American English. (I have worked beside many Indians in IT. Most are understandable unlike these “recruiters”.
Sometimes the job description is so vague that the job and company could be anyone. Sometimes the job description is specific and the end client is obvious.
The problem is that, even if the job is posted somewhere where people can see it, the company will still find an excuse not to hire an American. They’ll invent some impossible qualification, say, “See! No Americans qualify!” and hire an H1-B. Nobody ever goes back to check whether the H1-B meets the impossible qualification (Spoiler: He doesn’t), and so the scam continues. I’ve seen it with my own eyes.
Why are American young people so unhappy and alienated, the whining little ingrates ...
They work hard, get their degree,incur student loans. Then they find there isn’t a job for them, because an employer wants someone who will work twice the hours for half a fair wage—and they have that visa to hold over their heads if they grumble.
Stoop labor in neckties.
But we are leaving them nearly 40T in national debt, there’s that, and democrats want to stack even more debt on their shoulders by paying the bills of aliens who shouldn’t even be here..
“If you want to become a Senior Data Analyst for Black and Decker, you have to pick up a copy of the Sunday paper.”
Old school. I got my career-starting job that way, decades ago. I went to the library to scan through Sunday papers from several major cities.
https://www.nasdaq.com/market-activity/stocks/swk/institutional-holdings
On Stanley Black & Decker, Inc. Common Stock (SWK) Institutional Holdings.
Guess who.
Everything associated with this program should be burned to the ground, stomped upon, and sent to the dustbin of history for good.
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