The Trump administration has successfully sealed the border from illegal entrants. Deportations are well underway. Now is the time for Congress to do its part by ending laws that help foreigners illegally present in the U.S. take away jobs, housing, and retirement benefits that should go to Americans.

The lynchpin for these giveaways is the Individual Taxpayer Identification Number, or ITIN. This number is a little-discussed, quasi-Social Security number given only to foreigners. It exists ostensibly so that undocumented immigrants (and a few others) can pay taxes on wages from jobs they cannot legally hold in the U.S.

And were that the end of it, who would be able to quarrel with it — even if the few billions paid by ITIN holders is dwarfed by the tens of billions it costs to support illegal residents annually?

But our tax laws are not being used just to generate income for the government. They also send policy signals. And the use of ITINs specifically normalizes and thus incentivizes illegal immigration.

For example, illegal immigrants with ITINs are eligible for a generous tax credit if they pay someone to watch their children — but only if they pay for that child care so they can work in the U.S. illegally.

A federal judge recently granted a preliminary injunction blocking the IRS from sharing the identities of illegal aliens with Homeland Security. Her rationale? The information-sharing would lead many non-legally present foreign workers to “forgo filing for tax benefits to which they are entitled.”

ITINs also enable illegal aliens to purchase homes, putting them in direct competition with Americans looking to buy. This competition drives up housing prices and makes it harder for non-wealthy Americans to find their dream homes. Note that housing prices rose a buyer-crushing 42 percent during the Biden-Harris open-border years.

Our government even advises illegal aliens, on the down-low, how to buy houses out from under U.S. citizens. “Some lenders have mortgage programs tailored for ITIN holders who do not have proof of legal residency,” advises the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau website. “Not all lenders that offer ITIN mortgages advertise them. Contact banks, credit unions, and other lenders and mortgage brokers in your area to ask about ITIN mortgages.” While President Trump is working to shutter the bureau, it remains active as courts assess the legality of his efforts. (Of course, nothing would block the administration from at least removing that piece of advice.)

ITINs can also be used by the undocumented to obtain interest-bearing bank accounts from our biggest banks. Some states even let illegal aliens use ITINs to get driver’s licenses.

The Social Security Trust Fund is also at risk from ITINs. As advocates for undocumented aliens note, an ITIN might help foreigners someday prove length of residence for a future amnesty, so long as they can successfully evade deportation for a minimum number of years. The IRS even promises to help illegal aliens with ITINs get credit for their years of illegal work if they are later able to obtain Social Security numbers — for example, via an eventual immigration amnesty.

The message is clear: Come to America illegally and take a job from an American. If we ever grant you a green card, we might give you even more in Social Security benefits the longer you unlawfully kept a job that should have gone to an American.

How the H-1B Visa System Scams American Workers

A Case Study: Anthropic PBC — DOL Case No. I-200-25254-301868

Certified October 2025 — United States Department of Labor

The Legal Fiction

The H-1B visa program was created to allow American companies to hire foreign workers only when no qualified American can be found. Before hiring a foreign national, employers must file a Labor Condition Application (LCA) with the Department of Labor certifying they made good faith efforts to hire Americans first and that the foreign worker will be paid prevailing wages so as not to undercut the American labor market.

The Documented Reality

In October 2025, Anthropic PBC — the San Francisco artificial intelligence company — filed LCA case number I-200-25254-301868 with the Department of Labor. The filing certified that Anthropic could not find a qualified American for a software developer position paying between $187,574 and $320,000 per year.

This certification was signed under penalty of perjury by Anthropic’s Global Mobility department — Elaine Go, Virginia Blanton, and Roy Bharti — and filed by immigration law firm Fragomen Del Rey Bernsen and Loewy of San Francisco, one of the largest H-1B filing firms in the country.

At the time of this filing, hundreds of thousands of qualified American software developers were unemployed or underemployed. Experienced American technology workers were offering to work for a fraction of $187,574. American workers with decades of expertise were submitting thousands of resumes and receiving no callbacks.

The Money Laundering Structure

The listed salary of up to $320,000 satisfies the legal prevailing wage requirement on paper. In practice, the actual worker receives significantly less. The difference is captured by the intermediary pipeline: immigration law firms like Fragomen, staffing companies, and Global Mobility departments whose entire business model depends on processing these filings. The legal wage protection designed to protect American workers is systematically converted into revenue for intermediaries while the actual worker earns a fraction of the certified amount.

The Sham Recruitment

American workers who apply for these positions report a consistent pattern: job listings with artificially specific requirements, interviews conducted as legal formalities rather than genuine recruitment, and callbacks designed solely to document that Americans were considered and rejected. One American database analyst with thirty years of experience submitted three thousand resumes and received one phone call — from a recruiter who called not to hire him but to satisfy the legal documentation requirement before hiring a foreign national.

The Certification Fraud

Case I-200-25254-301868 was certified by the Department of Labor. The agency that is supposed to protect American workers certified Anthropic’s claim that no qualified American could be found for a $187,574 to $320,000 software development position. This certification was made without meaningful investigation. The Department of Labor processes tens of thousands of such applications annually with minimal scrutiny, functioning as a rubber stamp for a system it was designed to regulate.

This is not an isolated case. It is the system working exactly as the corporations that lobbied for it intended.

FOIA Request Reference: Case No. I-200-25254-301868
Employer: Anthropic PBC — 548 Market Street PMB 90375, San Francisco CA 94104
Filing Attorney: Eduardo Garcia, Fragomen Del Rey Bernsen and Loewy LLP, 555 Montgomery Street 4th Floor, San Francisco CA 94111
Signed under penalty of perjury by: Elaine Go / Virginia Blanton / Roy Bharti, Global Mobility Department, Anthropic PBC
Source: U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration — h1bgrader.com

US Citizenship and Immigration Services H-1B Data Hub, which lists employers who are using H-1Bs :

https://www.uscis.gov/tools/reports-and-studies/h-1b-employer-data-hub

Note that the state selector drop includes entries for these non-states :

AA - Armed Forces Americas
AE - Armed Forces Europe
AP - Armed Forces Pacific
AS - American Samoa
GU - Guam
MP - Marianas Protectorate
PR - Puerto Rico
VI - U.S. Virgin Islands
XX - Not in U.S./Error

On this page,

https://www.uscis.gov/tools/reports-and-studies/immigration-and-citizenship-data

if you drop down Fiscal Year 2025: Quarter 3 Data Reports, April–June 2025,

and download this spreadsheet :

https://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/document/data/quarterly_all_forms_fy2025_q3.xlsx

, if you total up all the columns and rows, the total of the applications to be in the U.S. LEGALLY adds up to 10 million. This is 2 of the 3 quarters in the data are in 2025, where only the first 20 days of January were NOT in the Trump administration.

“They Deleted My H-1B Exposé. Now 100 Employees Are Confirming the Same Pattern.” :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WO5PJBLgnes

https://h1bexposed.tech/

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