“A Scam Perpetrated on the American Worker” — When Bipartisan Anger Meets a Rigged Market
A West Virginia congressman's push to abolish H-1B visas reveals bipartisan frustration with a program critics say was never about filling genuine skill gaps.
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When Walmart Says No, Pay Attention
Walmart's decision to pause H-1B job offers after the $100,000 fee is the clearest signal yet of how the program's economics actually work.
The Remote-Work Loophole Nobody Talks About in the H-1B Debate
Beyond wages, H-1B workers using remote work to undercut American workers in low-cost regions is a mechanism that gets far less attention than it deserves.
“You Don’t Have Certain Talents” — Trump’s H-1B Defense Doesn’t Add Up
Trump's own comments defending H-1B visas reveal the gap between the program's stated purpose and how it's actually used — and drew pushback from his own party.
Computer Science Graduates Are Facing 6.1% Unemployment. The Visa Pipeline Isn't Helping.
As big tech layoffs eliminated roughly 80,000 jobs in 2025, new data shows recent computer science and engineering graduates facing unemployment and underemployment rates well above the national average — right as H-1B approvals sit near record highs.
What the $100,000 H-1B Fee Actually Changes
A plain read of the September 2025 White House proclamation restricting H-1B entry, and what its fee, waivers, and 12-month clock mean in practice.
The H-1B Math Nobody Wants to Say Out Loud
A look at how the H-1B program's cost savings, not a talent shortage, explain why Silicon Valley keeps hiring foreign workers while laying off Americans.
Google, Apple and Microsoft Laid Off Thousands and Hired H-1B Workers to Replace Them
Company-by-company H-1B filing data shows Google, Apple and Microsoft hiring nearly as many new H-1B workers as they laid off American employees over the same stretch — a pattern that undercuts the industry's talent-shortage narrative.
January's Job Cuts Were the Worst Since 2009 — and Hiring Barely Showed Up
New Challenger data shows 108,435 announced job cuts in January 2026, the worst January for layoffs since the Great Recession, while planned hiring hit the lowest level for that month since tracking began — a market one economist bluntly called "slim pickings."
The H-1B Fraud Numbers Nobody Wants to Talk About
A new report alleges roughly 100,000 counterfeit Indian degree certificates and a former U.S. consular officer's claim that 80-90% of the H-1B applications she reviewed were fraudulent - here's why that matters for American tech workers.