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This past week, talks surrounding the H-1B visa program hit the mainstream. Of course, if you’ve kept up with our coverage, you know we’ve been talking about this issue for quite some time.
And with good reason: few programs illustrate the failures of our current immigration system more clearly.
The H-1B visa allows corporations to import “high-skilled” foreign labor to fill job openings. For decades, the program has been used not to fill gaps in the American workforce but to replace it—depressing wages, displacing citizens, and depriving the next generation of job opportunities. Big Tech, global corporations, and multinational CEOs love it. American workers do not.
This week, the issue reignited after President Donald Trump told Fox News’ Laura Ingraham that bringing in foreign labor on H-1B visas is necessary to “bring in talent.” When Ingraham pushed back, noting that America has plenty of highly skilled citizens ready to work, Trump disagreed, saying, “No, you don’t… you don’t have certain talents, and people have to learn.”
He also defended past remarks suggesting the U.S. should allow up to 600,000 Chinese students to study here in order to keep American universities from “going out of business.”
The comments sparked immediate backlash among many in the America First movement.
Our position is simple: American workers come first.
The United States does not benefit from importing highly skilled foreign labor when American engineers, programmers, and graduates are routinely overlooked for jobs in their own country. In fact, more than 80% of H-1B hires are brought in to fill entry-level and junior-level positions. This statistic is especially startling when we learn that the unemployment rate for US college graduates is now 9.3%, higher than it was during the 2008 Great Financial Crisis, when it stood at 8.7%.
Texans for Strong Borders also opposes using foreign students—especially those from adversarial nations—to prop up failing institutions. If universities cannot survive without a stream of foreign nationals paying full tuition, then the problem lies with university leadership, not the American people.
President Trump was the first major political leader to force a national debate on immigration, American sovereignty, and the needs of citizens. Under his leadership, the Republican Party shifted decisively away from globalist, cheap-labor policies and toward defending American workers.
But on the H-1B program and foreign student visas, the President is being misled. This is an area where his advisors—many of whom still hold Silicon Valley, Wall Street, or university-aligned views—are steering him in the wrong direction.
We respectfully urge President Trump to reconsider this stance.
America does not need to import a foreign professional class.
America does not need to subsidize universities with foreign nationals.
America does not lack “talent.”It lacks leaders willing to fight for its citizens.
Ending abuse of the H-1B program, prioritizing American workers, and restricting foreign student inflows must remain central pillars of any immigration agenda that claims to put America First.
As long as global corporations, universities, and political advisors continue pushing for the mass importation of foreign labor, Texans for Strong Borders will continue telling the truth.
We will keep fighting for that principle, and we invite every Texan who shares this conviction to stand with us.
All visas need to be stopped! We have way too many foreigners flooding into our country and have for too many years!! And, we especially cannot allow foreigners to take over our highly skilled jobs! It is a risk to our national security as is will make our country vunerable to being taken over by then knowing the inner workings of our companies. If the woke colleges fail, so be it!
You’re totally right! And we specially don’t need 600,000 Chinese, in our colleges, stealing our technology!