U.S. Tech Workers

@ifspp we bring together civic minded people to advocate on behalf of American workers harmed by employment visa programs & demand Congress enact reforms.

[NE-Techworkers @CTechworkers]

Let's make the CEO of eBay famous... a guy laying off Americans and replacing them with H1-Bs.... This explains why their online store barely works now.

[Chris Brunet @chrisbrunet]

The University of Oklahoma (@UofOklahoma) just filed a notice of intent to hire an H-1B Associate Director of Big Screens and Game Entertainment

Salary: $53,000

No American citizen was qualified for this job.

[Pascal Najadi @imPascalNajadi]

🚨 BREAKING: In a bombshell moment, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis ABOLISHES H-1B VISAS from being used at state universities

"We can do it with Florida RESIDENTS or AMERICANS! If we can't? Then man, we need to REALLY look deeply at what's going on with this situation!"

DeSantis exposed that H-1B AUDITS found colleges were bringing in Chinese people on visas to talk to students about "public policy," among other issues.

"Why do we need to bring someone from CHINA to talk about public policy?!"

"I am directing today the Florida Board of Governors to PULL THE PLUG on the use of these H-1B visas at our universities."

HUGE! I LOVE my state! @GovRonDeSantis ☀️

[AAII @ub2bad2]

Good Question! Time to end the H1B Body Shops who have been convicted of Visa Fraud! They are not even on the Visa Ban List! Who in the #Trump Administration has been purchased by India doing their bidding and not protecting American Workers?
@POTUS @VP @SecMullinDHS @StephenM @USTechWorkers #MAGA

[Chris Brunet @chrisbrunet]

New H-1B posting:

Career Consultant - Student Athletes

The salary for this position is $47,658 annual per year.

[SightBringer @_The_Prophet__]

⚡️This is a monster signal.

This is the moment frontier AI stops being treated like software and starts being treated like controlled strategic capability.

The key phrase is not “customers.”

The key phrase is “foreign national Anthropic employees.”

That means the state is no longer only controlling chips, model weights, or overseas access. It is moving into cognition access by nationality. That is the real threshold. The U.S. government is saying the highest models are sensitive enough that even people physically inside the United States, working inside the company, may be barred from touching them if their nationality creates deemed-export risk.

That is weapons-control logic.

This is ITAR logic for intelligence.

The corporate language about a “misunderstanding” is probably diplomacy.

Companies say that when they need to preserve customer trust, employee morale, and regulatory room. But national security authorities do not force emergency suspension of top model access because someone made a minor paperwork mistake.

Something about Fable 5 and Mythos 5 crossed the line: cyber capability, autonomous R&D acceleration, AI-improving-AI utility, bio/security planning, code exploitation, or some blend of all of it.

The U.S. state just showed that Anthropic does not fully control Anthropic’s frontier layer.

That is the phase change.

Labs can brand themselves as public-benefit AI companies. They can talk about safety. They can sell enterprise plans. They can publish model cards. But once the models become national capability, the sovereign arrives. The state does not need to own the company to control the access surface. It only needs legal authority over export, security, procurement, and liability.

This confirms the arc we’ve been tracking:

Frontier AI becomes state-supervised strategic infrastructure.

Public AI splits from strategic AI.

Foreign access gets restricted.

Labs become quasi-defense contractors.

Model access becomes a national security perimeter.

Enterprise customers learn that API access is not property. It is revocable permission inside a sovereign-controlled stack.

The most important implication is organizational.

If foreign national employees can be cut off from frontier systems, AI labs now have to reorganize internally around citizenship, clearance, compartmentalization, and controlled access. That breaks the old Silicon Valley assumption that global talent can freely collaborate around the frontier. The next AI lab structure looks less like Google in 2015 and more like a defense prime crossed with a classified research facility.

For markets, the winners are the national champions with U.S.-aligned infrastructure, cleared customer channels, government relationships, compliance capacity, and domestic compute. The losers are open access, foreign-dependent AI wrappers, offshore model distributors, and any enterprise whose moat depends on unrestricted access to frontier APIs.

For geopolitics, this is escalation. China will read this correctly. Allies will read this correctly. Every serious state will understand that frontier models are now part of national power.

The AI race just moved from “who has the best chatbot” to “who controls cognition as a strategic asset.”

[Mark Simon @MarkSimonHK]

It’s predictable @HooverInst promotes this lie, and it is one. There is no “independent study” - it’s a collection of analogies. & the amount of $$ Hoover sucks up from Tech would make it impossible for Hoover to go the other way.
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H1B/OPT is a low wage labor abusive scam.
@ChiefEngineerCE @USTechWorkers @TPUSA @iaproject

[U.S. Tech Workers @USTechWorkers]

That’s a wrap. The 114th International Labour Conference ended this afternoon with a general consensus reached on a convention titled, Decent Work In A Platform Economy which has articles that impact gig workers. https://t.co/WMM9omZ0OB

[Mark Krikorian @MarkSKrikorian]

The Strange Case of ‘Number 8’ on DOJ’s Latest Denaturalization List

Why did DOJ wait to denaturalize a man who was convicted of immigration-related crimes in 2021?
https://t.co/k3ONy3akKn via @CIS_org

[Tom Luongo @TFL1728]

Sadly, service will improve.

[Bloomberg @business]

The Trump administration will appeal a federal judge’s order striking down a $100,000 fee for H-1B visa applications https://t.co/XinmZaVzi1

[Mark Krikorian @MarkSKrikorian]

If you have wondered why your kid who just graduated with a degree in computer science cannot find a job, this may be your answer.
https://t.co/ToaqqCSZpJ via @CIS_org

[Department of State @StateDept]

Under President Trump, the State Department is defending the integrity of U.S. citizenship by ending illegal birth tourism schemes.

No foreigner is permitted to obtain a visitor visa for the primary purpose of acquiring U.S. citizenship for a child by giving birth in the U.S.

[U.S. Tech Workers @USTechWorkers]

People often ask what states can do about the H-1B program if it’s federally controlled. Quite a lot, actually.

States control their own contracts. They can stop sending taxpayer dollars to H-1B-dependent outsourcing firms, particularly those that have lost lawsuits for discriminating against American workers in favor of H-1B employees.

@ZachLahn, who’s running for Iowa governor, has promised to end this practice. This is the kind of pledge you need from state leaders who are serious about reducing the footprint of H-1B outsourcing in their states. The next step is making sure they deliver. Campaign promises are easy; voters have to hold them accountable once they’re elected.

[U.S. Tech Workers @USTechWorkers]

@GPB_GA @DolezalForGA Georgia had a great champion in the late DA King. Sadly he passed a couple years ago. He not only pushed back but worked tirelessly to promote good legislation. The opening is there. Who is prepared to step up?

[U.S. Tech Workers @USTechWorkers]

5/5 Watch the full interview here: https://t.co/cnyfMnUwHM

[U.S. Tech Workers @USTechWorkers]

1/5 Wow! @EMBurlingame speaks with an easy confidence and subject matter expertise that allow him to deliver a one-two punch time and again during the course of this interview with @CryptoRichYT on the topic of employment visas.

Burlingame is a cross between Sergeant Joe Friday and Dirty Harry. We may have been at this game a few years before him but, he is a powerful spokesman for this movement. Please follow and support him.

[U.S. Tech Workers @USTechWorkers]

4/5 Question - How do you rape and pillage a mercantilist country?