Texans for Strong Borders has unveiled a powerful new tool. Our official H-1B tracker has gone live on strongborders.org/h-1b-tracker/. This map is the first-ever visual map of every H-1B employer in the State of Texas. You can view our official press release here.
You can use the Strong Borders H-1B tracker to see the full extent of H-1B expansion in Texas. The map uses official USCIS data to show which employers hire H-1Bs, where they are located, and how many H-1B applications they have filed for and been granted.
The H-1B Visa, originally created by the Immigration Act of 1990, was intended to recruit high-level talent from other countries—doctors, engineers, and scientists. Since its creation, the program has morphed into a corporate cost-cutting measure and a massive nest of fraud.
The H-1B visa is now used by employers to bring in entry-level positions from other nations (primarily India and China) to displace American workers. These companies often have their American employees train their replacements, fire the employees, and then pay the H-1Bs lower wages. And when they aren’t replacing American workers, they are defrauding the system with ghost offices and other schemes.
H-1B has been particularly destructive to the Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics field (STEM) and has led to a whopping 62% of US STEM graduates being unable to find employment in the field. Numbers like that don’t show a labor gap being filled; they show an overwhelming displacement in the labor market.
Texans for Strong Borders advocates for eliminating the H-1B program in its entirety at the federal level, and restricting it as much as the law allows at the state level—including serious restrictions on using any taxpayer money to fund H-1B employers or grant them government contracts.
We hope that both grassroots activists and policymakers will use the H-1B map to analyze the damage caused by H-1B, educate Texans on the truth about H-1Bs, and ultimately bring real reform that puts Americans first, not corporations or foreigners.