In a bid to combat H-1B visa workers driving down U.S. wages the Trump administration is seeking to make the foreign job-takers more expensive to hire. A proposal to increase the minimum salary requirements for these workers by roughly 30 percent across multiple experience levels was introduced by the Department of Labor on March 27. It is currently open for public comment until May 26.
“If approved, this would affect not just H-1B visas but also related categories such as H-1B1, E-3 and PERM labor certification programs,” American Bazaar Online said Monday. “The Department of Labor said that the existing wage benchmarks were designed nearly two decades ago and no longer reflect present-day labor market realities in the United States. The proposed regulation, titled ‘Improving Wage Protections for the Temporary and Permanent Employment of Certain Foreign Nationals in the United States,’ argues that the current system allows companies to hire foreign workers at wages lower than what many American workers receive for comparable jobs.”
Importantly, 74.5% of H-1B workers came from India and 11.8% came from China in 2019. On Wednesday The Times of India reported that 70% of H-1B workers hailed from India in 2025. Due to coming from third world and “developing” nations, these foreign workers are content to earn a lower salary than real Americans due to it still being an improvement over what they came from. Additionally, money can be sent back to the homeland where it provides greater purchasing power than a local job.
“An entry‑level software engineer in San Francisco would need to be paid $162,000 a year to qualify for an H‑1B visa under a Trump administration proposal — almost 30% more than today. In Dallas, the minimum would jump by a similar rate to $113,000 and in New York to $132,000,” Bloomberg said Friday. “Those are the types of pay increases potentially in store for immigrants using the most popular path for white-collar workers to enter or stay in the U.S. It’s part of changes to the H-1B program that the Trump administration says will help prevent foreigners from undercutting Americans’ wages.”
While American wages are stifled from the influx of foreigners from low income countries, so is the quality of employees.
“An ex-visa officer in India shared the dirty secret: 70-90% of Indian applicants gamed the system with fake credentials. Then, Indian workers hire their own while axing American jobs. Once they’re in, they stay, bringing more, while American talent gets left out,” Senator Eric Schmitt said.
Schmitt explained how Americans are competing against a global supply of these fraudulently-credentialed individuals.
“While Washington pats themselves on the back, American workers are told to ‘upskill’ or get replaced by H-1B hires. The entire system is designed to let companies take advantage of the law. While American grads and workers pay the price,” Schmitt said.
The plan would cost big corporations at least $18 billion over the first year, according to an analysis by immigration data company Lawfully and Threshold. This additional cost could theoretically increase the rate of replacement of humans with AI, although that trend remains even without increasing wages.
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How about he just kicks them out.
Do there Wimmins even know wjat condoms are for, or, we up to the alligator dung stuff???
LOL! So the H1B workers get a 30% pay raise? Just deport them and end the H1B visa program. Problem solved.
tell them mofos to get mahic carpets rolling
THEY already own all the stores, gas, hotels….here in Rhode Island
Where i live also
I thought they already did this? Man this admin lies lies lies
camel jockeys suck
Im sick of these street shidders
Joke Time : What do call an indian dateing service???? Connect the dots
This is a stupid half-baked proposal. Raise the fee to $500k and TRAIN AMERICANS with that money you moron.
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Buh…. Buh.. but Alex Jonestein said ORANGE MAN BAD!!
Trump > Alex Jones and his zoomer retards
Bullshit every single thing trump announces turns out to be a fucking lie later, hes blowing smoke up your ass! Trump has turned out to be a complete fucking scumbag who only enriches his family at the expense of the average American, any one that has faith in him is a fucking idiot!
Hi retard. Enjoy Trump winning, loser
Lol you sound like a raging leftist troon enjoyer
Agreed and I voted for him 3 times
To me, it sounds like the more the American people do not want something in their country, like H1B visas, the bigger bribe our politicians are able to extract. The thing that We the People DO NOT WANT still happens, just the politicians get to make even more profit from selling us out. Kind of like what happens with data centers.
“If you want to take this American’s job, you need to pay us $132,000 instead of $113,000, then it will be totally fine to take it”. How about don’t take the job from the American worker at all? How about that?
How about you move the goalpost even more, loser
The Reality: They are tanking what industry WTO and NAFTA didn’t eventually off-shore. Go to any truck stop, resturant, warehouse, or manufacturing site.. Maybe a hand full of Americans working the office positions and basically 100% H-1B, H-2B, E3 workers otherwise.. Often times not even on visa outside STEM..
You could argue but you’d need the public to ignore what they can easily see and hear everywhere..
Great anecdote. Can you even spell anecdote? Trump winning, get used to it.
…An ex-visa officer in India shared the dirty secret: 70-90% of Indian applicants gamed the system with fake credentials. Then, Indian workers hire their own while axing American jobs.
Do you mean like the Patels?
Patels own eighty to ninety per cent of the motels in American small towns.
Care to guess about convenience stores?
I remember in the seventies there were using gov grants to buy up whole neighborhoods, and of course most gas stations and hotels. Nth generation Americans were denied access to all those grants..
I seen it first hand in NY, GA, and FL in the seventies and eighties, and now just about whole cities are indian owned and they did it all with grant money pulled out of FICA spending that Americans themselves were blocked from using even today..
You don’t leave your house. You live on the Internet in your bubble.
Imagine being such a retard that you take a generic family name and apply it to all browns. That’s Chicom level “every white man is Smith and Jones”.