Project for Immigration Reform

PFIR is a nonprofit working for fair, equitable solutions to environmental and overpopulation issues, and the unintended consequences of mass migration.

[Project for Immigration Reform @PFIRorg]

@vc_nordic Right, the number of H-1Bs receiving a $500k salary at Nvidia is quite small (possibly just one person!) but the framing here is that all 1,900 of H-1Bs at Nvidia are earning massively high salaries.

[Project for Immigration Reform @PFIRorg]

What if the American candidates were seeking a salary>$500K and had leverage to negotiate with competing firms, while the H-1B worker was primarily concerned with securing sponsorship? Or if Nvidia paid a high salary but still benefited from hiring someone less able to switch employers due to visa constraints? High H-1B salaries don't prove Americans weren't available or passed over.

It’s entirely possible that Nvidia genuinely hired the best candidates available. But pointing to a few such examples doesn’t excuse the fact that the H-1B program is entirely corrupt by design.

[Project for Immigration Reform @PFIRorg]

This is why framing housing prices as being driven solely by illegal immigration, while not entirely wrong, doesn’t tell the full story. Legal immigration also increases housing demand and contributes to rising prices.

[Bloomberg @business]

Towns north of Dallas saw some of the fastest growth in the US thanks to corporate relocations and H-1B visa workers. Now the housing market is seeing cooling demand due in part to higher visa costs and AI disruption https://t.co/NePFFRotjC

[Project for Immigration Reform @PFIRorg]

https://t.co/ExFA95uwEY

[Project for Immigration Reform @PFIRorg]

Professor of Computer Science @matloff was right to warn that the H-1B debate would devolve into just blaming the Tatas and Infosyses while excusing the Microsofts and Intels. Both use the program in ways that weaken wages and facilitate the displacement of U.S. workers, albeit through different mechanisms. Yet many will point to a handful of exceptions to excuse a system under which Big Tech firms continue laying off workers while filing thousands of H-1B petitions, often at wages that fall below the local median for those occupations.

[Kitten 🐈 @kitten_beloved]

The H1B debate can never be settled because it's a two-tier system

The people getting hired by Google and Amazon are not the same ones getting hired by Tata or Infosys and aren't making the same money

Today most tech H1Bs are at elite firms, 10 years ago most were at Tata et al

[Jessica Vaughan @JessicaV_CIS]

🤣The guy is not a child -- he turns 21 in July. And he's being detained for the purpose of removal, arrested now because someone in the last administration thought he was a priority removal case, likely as a threat to public safety.

[Riley Donovan @valdombre]

PM Carney says Canada is in a recession in part due to immigration cuts tanking population growth. He points out "household incomes" are rising.

Startling admission of what restrictionists have always said: mass immigration juices GDP while dragging down standard of living.

[Project for Immigration Reform @PFIRorg]

@MD_pause @SenSusanCollins The issue is processing delays and the green card consular processing ban on certain countries, not the $100,000 fee. It would be one thing if Susan Collins were making that point instead of focusing on the $100,000 fee which mostly impacts Indian IT outsourcing companies.

[Project for Immigration Reform @PFIRorg]

.@SenSusanCollins is just terrible on the H-1B issue. The fee doesn’t affect most foreign physicians because they typically arrive on J-1 visas and later transition to H-1B status, which exempts them from the $100,000 fee.

[Newsweek @Newsweek]

Senator Susan Collins presses Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin over $100K H‑1B fee’s impact on healthcare hiring. https://t.co/7DUrrXR9uP

[Project for Immigration Reform @PFIRorg]

Appreciate @Raul_Labrador urging @USDOL to take the H-1B issue seriously. One correction, though: employers are not legally required to prove that no qualified Americans are available before sponsoring an H-1B worker. The program was deliberately designed without such a requirement, allowing employers to legally hire foreign workers in place of available U.S. workers.

[Attorney General Raúl R. Labrador @Raul_Labrador]

The H-1B visa program was originally intended to bring in foreign workers only when Americans aren’t available. Instead, corporations have exploited it to replace American workers with cheaper foreign labor.

I’m urging the Department of Labor to raise the wage floors that make this abuse profitable. When the financial incentive disappears, so does the scheme.
https://t.co/WqS8FFF8zG

[Project for Immigration Reform @PFIRorg]

@eigenrobot Even Bloomberg admits this: https://t.co/a4gqpZSMy5

[eigenrobot @eigenrobot]

"how do universities function as devices for collecting fees to launder mass immigration" im glad you asked

apparently we had 1.18M international students in 2024-25

[Acting AG Todd Blanche @DAGToddBlanche]

Today, Jamshid Ghomi, a dual U.S.-Iranian citizen who lives in a $35 million mansion in Orange County, California, was arrested on a federal criminal complaint charging him with selling computer technology to Iranian companies and Iran’s government — including technology to help with Iran’s military and nuclear program.

These allegations assert that the defendant violated U.S. sanctions against Iran, aided one of our nation’s enemies, supported Iran’s nuclear program, and got rich doing it. Not only is he being arrested today, but we also are beginning the process of seizing his mansion, which was purchased with his illegal proceeds. Thanks to the work of @USAttyEssayli’s office, @CommerceGov, and @IRS_CI’s Los Angeles Field Office, he will face the full force of justice.

[Washington Journal @cspanwj]

The "Dignity Act", introduced by Reps. María Elvira Salazar (R-FL) and Veronica Escobar (D-TX), proposes a pathway to legal status for certain immigrants in the U.S. illegally while still enforcing border control.

.@Heritage Foundation's @lora_ries explains why she opposes the bill:

"Amnesty is not good policy, because it simply tells future illegal aliens to come to the U.S., wait, and you too will eventually get your amnesty or green card. This has not worked in the past – it undermines the rule of law.

[Ann Vandersteel™️ @annvandersteel]

I voted for this!

[Project for Immigration Reform @PFIRorg]

If you’re a U.S. citizen or green card holder qualified for any of the jobs advertised on https://t.co/glAkycp2c9’s website, apply for them. It’s the very least you can do as a civic duty to push back against the continued displacement of qualified U.S. workers and to ensure employers cannot claim there are no available domestic candidates.

[Jobs.Now @JobsNowPR]

Good news from the H1B subreddit-
software engineering labor market tests are failing!

Remember, if even a single qualified US citizen applied for the job- no greencard can be issued and the job cannot be permanently replaced with an immigrant!

apply for every relevant job!

[Laura Ingraham @IngrahamAngle]

Great!

[Immigration Accountability Project Action @iaproject]

Americans agree. Illegal aliens should not have access to our banks.

[Immigration Accountability Project Action @iaproject]

The thing that never happens keeps on happening. Weird.

[Immigration Accountability Project Action @iaproject]

@ScottMechkowski The Laken Riley Act specifically gives state Attorneys General the right to sue the government to enforce mandatory detention. Perhaps it’s time for that to happen. @KrisKobach1787 @JamesUthmeierFL @BrennaBird