https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2026/09/enhancing-program-integrity-and-integrity-and-interagency-coordination-in-the-administration-of-the-h-1b-nonimmigrant-visa-program/
>>109861068By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered:Section 1. Purpose. The H-1B nonimmigrant visa program was created to identify uniquely skilled and highly specialized foreign temporary workers to strategically supplement the United States economy. Instead, the program has been widely abused by certain employers, third-party placement groups, and outsourcing firms to undercut and displace the supply of skilled United States labor. The large-scale, systematic abuse of the H-1B program to obtain non-qualifying foreign labor has undermined the additive purpose of the program and harmed the wages, working conditions, and job opportunities of skilled American workers. The abuse of cheaper H-1B labor places downward pressure on domestic pay. H-1B visa holders earn far less than comparable United States-born workers, despite the statutory mandate that H-1B workers be paid equally to their domestic peers, with the estimated wage gap starting at $9,000 and climbing as high as $20,000 in H-1B reliant industries. One company even warned its shareholders that restrictions on cheap H-1B labor could force the company to use “local” workers, which “may only be available at higher wages.”
>>109861084Many employers have laid off large numbers of highly skilled American workers, only to promptly hire large numbers of H-1B workers who are often lower-skilled and lower-paid. For instance, technology sector employers have collectively requested H-1B visas for hundreds of thousands of workers, yet have also laid off somewhere between 800,000 to 1.3 million American employees from 2022 through 2026. Employers have even forced laid off American workers to train their foreign replacements.Many jobs held by H-1B workers eventually leave the United States entirely. Employers with outsourcing business models use teams of H-1B visa holders to replace United States workers at third‑party client businesses and liaise with other individuals working off-site from their country of origin. As soon as practicable, much of their own work is transferred offshore. In Fiscal Year 2026, the top six users of the H-1B program operating with this outsourcing business model accounted for over 25,000 H-1B cap registrations. One foreign country’s foreign minister even publicly admitted that H-1B “has become the outsourcing visa.”The systematic and organized abuse of the H-1B program is also a national security threat. Domestic law enforcement agencies have investigated H-1B-reliant outsourcing firms for engaging in visa fraud, conspiracy to launder money, and other illicit activities to encourage foreign workers to come to the United States. Abuses of the H-1B program also present a national security threat by discouraging Americans from pursuing careers in science and technology, risking vital United States leadership in these fields.
>>109861089Numerous executive departments and agencies (agencies) have flagged employers’ large‑scale, systematic abuse of the H-1B program to obtain lower‑paid, lower-skilled labor from abroad. These ongoing Government probes continue to identify widespread fraud and noncompliance among H-1B employers, such as: displacing American workers or otherwise giving preference to alien workers; misrepresenting the duties, requirements, or working conditions of job opportunities to avoid hiring or training American workers, falsely qualify jobs as specialty occupations, or lower applicable wage requirements; and misrepresenting aliens’ qualifications to perform specialty occupations by submitting questionable foreign degrees from diploma mills as support for their H-1B visa applications. The pervasiveness of these violations and the persistence of the violators confirm that more needs to be done to preserve the H-1B program’s integrity.I have determined that continued efforts must be made to protect and prioritize the American workforce. It is therefore the policy of the United States that all relevant agencies shall implement appropriate measures to protect American workers from abuse of the H-1B program and ensure that the program serves the national interest.
>The systematic and organized abuse of the H-1B program is also a NATIONAL SECURITY THREAT.
https://ogletree.com/insights-resources/blog-posts/executive-order-calls-for-interagency-review-of-employer-layoffs-in-h-1b-filing-processPlain.english version, but from a law firm specializing in getting immigrants in to.the US for h1b visa work, do expect.some bias
I'm yet to see the total, absolute number of H-1B workers since Trump took office. Not relative change, not some percentage, not anecdotal stunts. I want to see how many H-1Bs workers there were when he took office and how many H-1B are there now.Why isn't that data available anywhere?
>create a body that approves H-1Bs and will be used as a mechanism for collecting bribes.problem solved.
>>109861068TL;DR
>>109861133It is publicly available. Go download it and ask chatGPT to figure it out.
>>109861193see >>109861103
>>109861068This almost sounds like Trump has done a good thing
He sure as shit didn't write all of this and he sure as shit hasn't read any of this because our current president is incapable of reading and incapable of writing. He's only capable of shitting in his Depends brand diaper.
>>109861327You sound very smart
>>109861133You know maybe it's for the better that you're an unemployed nobody >>109861214
