Labor Day Reflection on H-1B Myths
The media narrative is decoupled from reality
By John Miano on September 1, 2025
From “Comprehensive Immigration Reform” to H-1B visas, the legacy media reporting on immigration invariable is gaslighting the public rather than news. The legacy media and politicians know that few people will actually read the bills or statutes and know what they contain. The legacy media promotes a narrative of immigration legislation that is decoupled from what is actually in the legislation.
If you prowl on X you will find people saying that H-1B is intended for highly skilled workers or that H-1B is intended to fill labor shortages. That kind of disinformation demonstrates the success of gaslighting the public.
I previously walked through the actual H-1B statutes and showed how they make it explicitly legal to replace Americans and how the statutes are designed to allow employers to pay low wages H-1B workers.
Look back on legacy media articles about H-1B, for instance, here and here. You will not find one that states the key fact that it is explicitly legal to replace Americans with H-1B workers.
When one skips the media gaslighting and actually reads the H-1B statutes, one finds that Congress designed H-1B to replace Americans with cheap foreign labor. In fact, is appears that the U.S. Congress is the only national legislature in the world that has voted to make it legal to replace its citizens with foreign workers.
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