‘Jig is up’: Crackdown coming on system rigged to give foreigners Americans’ jobs

A new report in Revolver.News warns that now the “jig is up,” and there’s coming a crackdown on a system rigged to give foreigners Americans’ jobs.

The system is the H-1B visa system that purportedly is to allow foreigners with technical expertise to come to America for jobs when there aren’t enough qualified Americans for the work.

The report cited a new looming crackdown by the Trump administration:

For years now, corporate elites and their buddies in The Swamp have locked Americans out of good jobs by rigging the hiring system so cheap foreign labor can help line their pockets. They’ve built an underground pipeline that pretends to “recruit” US workers while actually funneling the positions to cheap H-1B workers. The whole scheme runs on secrecy, red tape, and the government’s flat-out refusal to enforce the law. But now, The jig is up. Americans have had enough, and they’re fighting back. Thousands of American workers are now flooding these rigged job postings and exposing the bald-faced lie that there are “no qualified US workers.” US workers are jamming up the PERM process, exposing the big con and forcing the truth about the rigged system out into the open. This is what it looks like when ordinary American workers finally fight back.

It is economist Peter St. Onge who is quoted describing how a program “sold to Americans as this ‘high-skilled program’ is now a marathon race-to-the-bottom that’s costing us our jobs, our innovation, and our competitive edge.”

Trump, however, is adopting an agenda to end the H1-B program as it exists, the report said.

“They’re ripping out the coding sweatshops by the roots and taking the program back to what it was supposed to be – bringing in true experts when needed, not churning out boatloads of cheap labor to make corporations richer and Americans poorer,” Revolver.News said.

Testimony about the corruption of the system already has made its presence known online:

There are many of us who have worked for H1B dependent companies and managed B1B2/ L1/ H1Bs. Myself, I have managed over 3000. As outlined in my congressional testimony I stated this is nothing but cheap labor. Out of 50 people(NO AMERICANS but me!) That I had in an average… pic.twitter.com/8W7MqRTMBr

— Jack(Jay) (@jackjaypalmer) December 31, 2024

One insider reported, “There are many of us who have worked for H1B dependent companies and managed B1B2/ L1/ H1Bs. Myself, I have managed over 3000. As outlined in my congressional testimony I stated this is nothing but cheap labor. Out of 50 people (NO AMERICANS but me!) That I had in an average implementation, there was one competent H1B. The remaining had to work 10 hours on the client site and then 8 hours at night with co workers in India to get their work completed. They lived 8 to 10 in a 2 bedroom apartment. This was nothing but taking jobs from Americans and on the job training.”

According to Newsweek, changes are coming through a proposed Department of Homeland Security rule that would alter the visa effort.

It already has cleared the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs.

“Federal regulators cleared a proposed rule that would apply a ‘weighted selection process’ by replacing the current random lottery with a new system that gives priority in the selection process to registrants who meet or exceed certain criteria, such as wage or education level,” the report said.

It explained, “The H-1B program supplies tens of thousands of specialty-occupation workers to U.S. employers each year and is heavily used by the technology sector. Any shift from a random lottery to a weighted, wage- or skill-based system could change hiring incentives for employers, affecting which foreign professionals obtain U.S. work authorization.”

In fact, the report suggested the changes could “incentivize employers to offer higher wages to improve odds in a weighted system or change recruitment strategies.”

The report said the next step in the process is publication of a proposed rule in the Federal Register and a public comment period.

Trump’s first administration had proposed a similar plan, when he sought to “rank and select petitions by wage tiers (OES wage levels IV down to I).” He argued it would focus on higher-paid, highly skilled hires.

Joe Biden killed the plan, however.

Newsweek said, “The Institute for Progress, a nonpartisan think tank examining innovation policy, earlier this year suggested eliminating the H-1B lottery. It argued that the economic value of the visa program could be increased by 88 percent if applicants were evaluated based on seniority or salary. The H-1B visa has come under increasing scrutiny since Trump assumed office in January, as the president’s supporters have called into question the number of visas handed out to foreign nationals at what they claim is the expense of American workers.”

For instances, Microsoft repeatedly has demanded to hire employees under the program. It applied for 9,491 visas during the last fiscal year, at a time when it was laying off 16,000 Americans.