re: Tech firms are simultaneously laying off American workers and filing requests for H1B

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Trump has to kiss the wall and do as Israel wants.

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Illegal immigration – shut down.
Deportations – at record numbers.
Trade deficit – down 54% over the last 12 months compared to the preceding period.
Net exports – up 11.3% over the same period.
Tax and regulatory reform – accomplished. (Takes time to have economic effects)

Now I'm not saying the man is perfect, but he's swimming upstream against goon Thune and a do-nothing Senate. Why don't you give the man a chance?

I voted for the man 3 times.

I agree no one is perfect and yes the senate and house are major problems.

I’m just saying he isn’t going to stop the tech companies on this. I don’t recall him ever saying he was going to end the H1B scam, plus he has a personal history of using them.

I get judges and liberal states are holding down the deportation number.

I like Trump but I could do with him not spiking gas prices because Israel is egging us on. I want more focus on the home front less boondoggles in the Middle East. Him hammering H1Bs and the companies that are directly hurting his supporters isn’t likely to happen though

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Him hammering H1Bs and the companies that are directly hurting his supporters isn’t likely to happen though

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Last September Trump ordered a $100,000 fee for new H-1B visa petitions It applies to petitions filed after September 21, 2025. The chamber of commerce is fighting like hell against it.

Meanwhile, the Department of Labor launched Project Firewall in late 2025 to specifically target H-1B "fraud and abuse". For the first time, the Secretary of Labor personally certifies investigations where there is "reasonable cause" to believe U.S. workers are being displaced. The DOL has explicitly listed "sudden layoffs of U.S. workers followed by new H-1B hires" as a primary trigger for a site visit or investigation.

Companies found violating these rules face heavy fines, back-pay requirements, and a temporary ban from sponsoring any future H-1B workers. We'll see how this manifests with Oracle, Amazon, etc. So it seems Trump has already provided the DOL with tools for a remedy in cases, such as those the OP cited.

Further, the US citizenship and immigration services division now requires more granular detail on job roles and qualifications making it much harder for a laid-off H-1B worker to switch to a tourist visa (B-1/B-2) to stay and look for work, which was previously a common practice.

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As far as the legal challenges, in Chamber of Commerce v. DHS, Judge Beryl Howell actually ruled in favor of the administration, finding that the President has broad authority to impose "any" restrictions on entry deemed detrimental to U.S. interests. She ruled the $100,000 H1B fee is not a standard "user fee" (which only Congress can set) but rather a "condition on entry" and is an accordance with current law.

The Chamber of Commerce asked for and received an expedited appeal. That case was heard last month, and the appeals court decision is expected imminently.

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We'll see how all this rings out. But to say, the administration has done, nothing about H1B visas ignores the facts.

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Any company using India or H1Bs has a massive massive drop in the quality of work that happens

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95% of these people are basically human calculators or able to recite what they read in a book.

Zero creative thought or deductive reasoning.

Chemical, energy, oil companies love them some H1Bs or offshoring straight to India, but the people they hire do not have a clue how a plant operates, systems, maintenance work flows, process troubleshooting, mechanical troubleshooting, planning, etc. So the company engineers, planners, support here have to "help" the help that was hired.

It's like hiring a contractor at your house to install a new roof, but you have to explain to them how it works, its purpose, and how to actually remove and tack shingles. And in the end, you have to fix the flashing that's leaking.

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I voted for the man 3 times.

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Cool, he still can't end visas. Only congress can.

Oracle needs to find 3,126 bad hombre illegals before he tries to bring in those Indians. Sucks to outsource this labor to cheap foreigners. Sadly many Americans don't want to work, or learn new skills. They just want to keep cashing those free checks. Seems like many people warned us 40 years ago what was gonna happen and we walked right into it wondering what hit us.