American Graduates Need Not Apply
A senior partner at a large U.S. company admits corporations will skirt H-1B restrictions—leaving American graduates behind.
Rob Jenkins
December 29, 2025
One issue currently dividing conservatives is immigration, particularly regarding the H-1 B visa program.
Many believe that a certain amount of immigration is necessary for U.S. corporations to recruit the best possible engineers, programmers, and so forth. They view the H1-B visa, which facilitates such hiring, as not only a positive good but an economic necessity. Others counter that importing skilled labor takes jobs from American workers and drives down wages, and point to rampant fraud in the program.
Some of those in the latter group were delighted a few months ago when President Trump called for raising the fee for an H1-B visa from $10,000 to $100,000. That will obviously discourage corporations from bringing in as many foreigners and thus decrease the number of H1-B visas issued. But will it also have the desired effect of opening up more jobs for American workers—specifically, American college graduates? Not necessarily.
To bring about change, we need to address the F-1 visa, something for which neither the president nor Congress has shown any appetite.
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