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Spot on. The $60,000 wage figure in H-1B is part of the definition of an “Exempt H-1B non-immigrant.” An Exempt H-1B Nonimmigrant is one who has a master’s degree or higher or earns more than $60,000. All other H-1B nonimmigrants are “Non-Exempt H-1B Nonimmigrants.” The exempt H-1B nonimmigrant classification appears to two places: 1. Displacement of Americans. 2. Recruitment of Americans It is unlawful to replace an American with an H-1B worker when: 1. The employer is H-1B dependent (has more than 15% of total employees on H-1B); AND 2. The replacement is a Non-exempt H-1B nonimmigrant; AND 3. The replacement takes place within 90 days of making the visa petition. Because #3 sets up an impossibility on its own, raising the $60,000 does nothing. Employers must check a box on the LCA form saying they recruited U.S. workers in good faith for and hired any more qualified Americans when: 1. The LCA specifies Non-Exempt H-1B Workers 2. The employer is H-1B dependent. The LCA is filed in a vacuum with no job or worker identified. Plus DOL is required to certify the LCA within 7 days as long as the form is filled out correctly. Even if DOL could check, there is no way to verify the anything because there is no worker identified to ensure he is exempt. There is no job, so there is no way to say a U.S. workers was not hired. Raising the $60,000 does nothing here either. Even if DOL has some means of checking, the rule only applies to H-1B dependent employers. And about 1/3 of the visas would be exempt anyway. Congress could raise the $60,000 to $60,000,000,000,000,000,000 and it would have no effect on H-1B.

WSJ: A Princeton PhD in chemical engineering applied to 2,300 jobs, ranging from postdoctoral fellowships to corporate science jobs and software engineering positions. He still hasn’t found a job. 34% of Americans surveyed by Gallup in August said it was a good time to find a quality job. Meanwhile, Congress is fixated on finding a way to pass a bill that staples green cards to any international student who earns a PhD in the United States. We should start by asking why our own graduates can’t find jobs before importing more workers.

Countless Americans have been forced to train their own H-1B replacements, a practice so widespread that even 60 Minutes documented it. This has been going on since the program was created in 1990. Invoking Einstein and von Neumann is absurd. Neither came on an H-1B visa. They were extraordinary intellectual talents, not interchangeable workers filling ordinary corporate jobs. The modern H-1B system largely serves employers seeking cheaper labor by exploiting the immigration dependence of workers willing to accept lower pay for a chance to stay in America.

PERM process (Green Card sponsorship for H-1B workers) has been suspend for Microsoft! Thanks @JDVance and @Sonderling47!

Well said, Joker. For reasons that are hard to fathom, @SarahHuckabee has chosen to go after the demographic least likely to receive means-tested welfare, and the one that corporations and government colluded to throw overboard decades ago. As of mid-2026, roughly 7 million men of prime working age (25–54) are entirely out of the labor force. Add in the unemployed, and it's about 9 million. A @CIS_org report found that 4% of prime-age, U.S.-born men were out of the labor force in 1960. By 2000, that rose to 8.5%. Today it's 11.1%. For those without a bachelor's degree, the rate rose from 4.2% in 1960 to 10.6% in 2000 to 14.6% in April 2026. The report doesn't break out college graduates, but a rough calculation from its figures puts prime working age, U.S.-born men with a bachelor's at about 6% out of the labor force today, versus about 2.5% in 1960. Understand , the college educated rate has more than doubled too, just from a lower base. Meanwhile, unemployment for recent college graduates sits at roughly 7.0% in computer science and 7.8% in computer engineering. Let's be clear, these 9 million men aren't sidelined because they chose to sit around gaming. The most common reason men out of the labor force give is health or disability. And many are there because corporations and elected officials colluded to throw them overboard. While union halls emptied and immigration surged, policymakers and corporations steered two generations of young people toward four-year degrees under a college-for-all ethos that stigmatized the skilled trades. Then, when corporations decided their skilled white-collar professionals cost too much, they worked with Congress and federal agencies to create programs like H-1B and STEM OPT to replace those workers with foreign labor. And let's not even get started on the impact of DEI policies. Governor Huckabee's bizarre rant should be a wake-up call to America's productive classes about just how much the elite look down on us. Don't let yourselves be gaslit.

Every company that uses the H-1B visa program is gaming the prevailing-wage requirement through some form of occupational misclassification. It’s a central feature, not a bug. That’s why there’s no reforming the H-1B program—it should just be eliminated.