The damage this evil man did to shool aged children in this country during the Covid pandemic will be felt for decades to come, and he got away with it!
Don't forget her. She's JUST as KNOWINGLY guilty.
And she... has no pardon.
Arrest her; and I bet she starts 'chirping' out MANY others involved, for a plea deal.
Every day we see layoffs at major American companies. Then we see these same companies hiring people on H-1B visas. There should not be one H-1B visa issued to any company that lays off Americans. Not. One.
So as we find illegals working at American companies are we just busting the individuals or ALSO the company for hiring them? IF we prosecuted the COMPANIES perhaps the problem would start resolving itself…just sayin’
TSMC is in North Phoenix, hiring Work Visas. This is totally unacceptable. Problem is ALL Arizona politicians inside Maricopa County and across the state have done nothing about it! This is what you get with all of the so-called Republicans in AZGOP.
Stealing US citizen income, wealth & prosperity!
🚨 GOOD OLD RINO: Senator John Kennedy (LA) will enthusiastically support FISA without warrants but the "SAVE AMERICA ACT" is a bridge too far.
WHY DO SO MANY PEOPLE FALL FOR HIS "OKIE DOKIE" ROUTINE ON FOX NEWS?
@SenJohnKennedy
Lawsuit: Top Chip Company Gets $6.6 Billion from the Feds, but Excludes American Workers
This is unacceptable!
If we are going to give our tax money away, can we at least give it to companies that hire Americans predominately? 🤔
I don't think that's too much to ask! 😉
The company is in the USA after all! 🙄
The company being sued is in AZ but hires mostly Chinese and Taiwanese workers, while discriminating against Americans.
In order to advance in IT you must speak Mandarin- in the US? 🥴
According to Trump, chip makers were supposed to come here temporarily and train Americans to do this work, so we can produce chips here in the US ourselves.
I hope that will be the case going forward.
Long, but interesting article.
Excerpts from the article:
Many skilled Americans are being pushed out of high-tech jobs by the ethnic-Chinese Taiwanese managers of a taxpayer-funded computer-chip company in Arizona, says a lawsuit by 13 Americans.
The “grossly disproportionate [ethnic Chinese] workforce is the result of [company’s] intentional pattern and practice of employment discrimination… including discrimination in hiring, staffing, promotion, and retention/termination decisions,” says the lawsuit by 13 American plaintiffs, filed by Kotchen & Low LLC.
The plaintiffs suing the Taiwan-based Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company [TSMC] — which has gotten $6.6 billion from taxpayers — say in their lawsuit:
TSMC’s preference for East Asians and those of Taiwanese or Chinese national origin is reflected in the demographics of the company’s managers and executive leadership. In one of the offsite meetings led by Mr. Perry, all 160 front-line managers in attendance were of Taiwanese national origin, and TSMC’s executive leadership team is exclusively made up of those of Taiwanese or Chinese descent.
Taiwanese leadership expressed a desire for a militant and authoritative culture where employees obey commands without question and offer no pushback. One female, a frontline manager at the meeting who is Taiwanese, began crying and stated: “I’m so embarrassed; Americans are lazy, they don’t work hard enough, they don’t know enough, and they don’t know commitment.” These discriminatory comments towards Americans were common at TSMC Arizona. During Mr. [James] Perry’s employment, he heard Americans being called “lazy” and “not hard working” by members of management (who were predominantly Taiwanese and Chinese). And employees who refused to consistently work twelve-hour days were considered poor performers.
“At TSMC, it was understood that in order to advance in IT, employees needed to speak and understand Mandarin, despite the fact that there is no Mandarin language requirement at TSMC and business was supposed to be conducted in English,” the lawsuit says.
“It’s our tax dollars that we’re paying to be replaced by foreign workers,” noted Rosemary Jenks, a Harvard graduate who founded the Immigration Accountability Project. “It is not the responsibility of the government to make cheaper labor available to employers… [and] if national security is the concern, then the only way to deal with it is to have Americans doing the work,” she said, adding:
There is increasing [public] understanding of the problems with H-1B visas — but there is so much money on the pro-H-1B side that it is distracting — to say the least — for members of Congress because they would have to oppose their donors [to fix the problem].
Polls show rising GOP opposition to the legalized migration — including the white-collar H-1B program — which extracts foreign workers, consumers, and renters from countries.
The company declined to comment on the allegations in the lawsuit, but told Breitbart News:
We’re proud of the global team of more than 3500 people that has come together to make our new facility in Arizona a success, and we look forward to growing the site into a major center of American semiconductor manufacturing excellence. TSMC is committed to providing a safe, welcoming and inclusive environment for our employees, contractors, and everyone who works at our facilities around the world.
To support this U.S. expansion, the biggest greenfield foreign direct investment in U.S. history, we have launched several local semiconductor technician training programs with Arizona universities and community colleges. These accelerated pathway programs have already enabled many Arizonans to begin careers with TSMC Arizona as technicians. We also do in-person recruiting at more than a dozen U.S. colleges to support our growing engineering workforce. This effort is reflected in our 2026 summer internship class of more than 200 students from American universities.
The lawsuit frequently says TSMC’s ethnic Chinese managers and workers were imported with visas. But it provided no details on the visas, which likely include the counterproductive H-1B, L-1, and even B1/B2 visitor visas.
A site that tracks visas shows the company sought H-1B visas for almost 500 people from 2020 to 2025.
The H-1B requests mostly seek to import many people with generic skills — payroll analyst, facility project engineer, principal engineer, financial data analyst, and facilities services coordinator. Only a minority want visas for people with the rare skills needed to produce chips, such as “photomask process engineer” and “lithography process engineer.”
TSMC likely uses the uncapped L-1 visa to import many employees, but the federal government has released little recent data about companies‘ inflow of L-1 workers.
Trump was elected to curb migration and has successfully stopped mass illegal migration by migrant laborers. But he has done little to curb the massive legalized airport-inflow of migrants into the white-collar jobs needed by U.S. graduates, including engineers, doctors, and software experts.
Instead, Trump has claimed that the skilled migrants will train Americans for the jobs. “This is MAGA… Those people are going to teach our people how to make computer chips, and in a short period of time, our people are going to be doing great, and those people can go home,” he said in November 2025.
“You also do have to bring in talent,” Trump told Fox News host Laura Ingraham in November 2025, adding:
You don’t have certain talents and people have to learn… You can’t take people off an unemployment line and say, ‘I’m going to put you into a factory where we’re going to make missiles.'”
But TSMC’s requests for H-1B visas are also paired with applications for long-term green cards that allow for the big prize of citizenship for a worker and all of his descendants. The applications imply that it is importing workers for the long term, and not to help train up Americans. This pairing practice is very rare, even for other companies that offer the hugely valuable green cards as a no-cost compensation bonus to their lower-wage staff.
Worse, the continued green-card inflow of Taiwan’s chip-making experts and their support staff will crowd out Americans who want to build a career in chip-making technology.
TSMC’s policies show that the company is using visas to block Americans from learning the chip-making skills deemed critical for national security, said George Fishman at the Center for Immigration Studies.
The government’s contracts with TSMC should ensure that Americans are getting hired to learn vital skills, said George Fishman at the Center for Immigration Studies. “It is unfortunate that the government is not doing that,” he said, adding:
You’re not going to get Americans to stay in these fields if they know that they’re going to be second-class citizens in their own country [and] by the age of 35, they’ll be all washed up in this field. We do have the [skilled] domestic labor; it’s simply that companies would rather have cheaper, younger, and more experienced labor than what we have, and that is just going to be self-perpetuating.
In general, he said, “There’s really no provision in immigration law preventing… [employers from] laying off [domestic] workers and replacing them with foreign workers.”
Much of Congress’ immigration law “is doing exactly what it was intended to do, which is to be a facade, or a Potemkin Village,” to hide corporate disregard for American employees, Fishman said.
Still, federal law claims to protect Americans from national discrimination, he said. “If the case could be made that the Mandarin requirement is just a pretext to discriminate against Americans, that’s a legitimate lawsuit,” he said, adding that the White House can cite national security to allow continued discrimination.
But the economic impact of the nationwide inflow of foreign engineers, nurses, doctors, truckers, accountants, and managers also undercuts a huge body of regulations that protect Americans’ workplace rights, healthcare, safety rights, truck safety laws, and much else, he said.
The huge inflow also deters Congress and the administration from enforcing the nation’s laws, he said. “When it comes to worksite enforcement, I don’t see a great desire by the administration [to enforce immigration laws],” said Fishman.
Lawsuit Claims
The lawsuit cites many cases where TSMC managers used migrants to pressure Americans not to enforce laws and regulations, and eventually, to push the Americans out of the company. “In or around November 2022, there was a significant shift within the company, and TSMC Arizona abandoned its localization efforts,” the lawsuit says.
The pro-migration policy allowed TMSC to fill critical jobs with foreign ethnic staff, according to the lawsuit:
Following Ms. [Teressa] Harnois’ replacement in September 2023, Ms. [Deborah] Howington was the only non-East Asian U.S. member of the HR Leadership Team. And only 4 of 17 employees on the U.S. HR team were non-East Asian during Ms. Howington’s employment with TSMC.…While TSMC Arizona hired a number of non-Taiwanese and non-Chinese workers while Mr. Perry was employed by the company as part of its efforts to expand TSCM’s presence in the U.S., the company quickly replaced all U.S. managers with individuals of Taiwanese descent. In fact, during Mr. Perry’s tenure, approximately 10-15 Americans who had been hired to work in Human Resources for TSMC Arizona left the company due to discrimination and TSMC’s hostile work environment.
The lawsuit said the managers at TSMC’s training camps in Taiwan were hostile to the Americans:
In April 2022, Mr. McKinley traveled to Taiwan for engineering training, and was part of the initial TSMC Arizona group sent to Taiwan. While he was there, the Taiwanese trainers picked on him and bullied him, and his work was criticized without justification. Mr. McKinley again reported the harassment, this time to Scott Hollman, CHRO, who was located in the United States. Mr. McKinley explained to Mr. Hollman that TSMC was targeting Black employees, including Mr. McKinley, and treating non-Taiwanese employees unfairly.…Once he was hired, Mr. Sterbinsky started his training online, and was then sent to Taiwan for 300 days to complete his training. Mr. Sterbinsky’s experience training in Taiwan was terrible. He was frequently yelled at by his managers and called stupid and lazy, and he heard Taiwanese employees say that “black people are lazy and smell.” His experience was not unique — when he arrived in Taiwan, there were four U.S. workers in his section, but all quit soon after as a result of TSMC’s hostile and discriminatory treatment.
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