Speaking during an awesome interview on Fox News Channel’s “The Sunday Briefing,” Trump Administration Secretary of Labor Lori Chavez-DeRemer explained how the administration is fighting hard against H-1B visa abuse by cracking down on almost 200 cases of suspected H-1B visa fraud, a move that could help out American workers in a big way.
Such is what she said when speaking to show host Jacqui Heinrich, explaining that, while companies are saying that AI is the reason for the slew of job cuts in which they have engaged, the administration is working hard to crack down on fraud in the H-1B program.
Beginning, she explained, after Heinrich asked about the matter of AI and how it is leading to job losses, “We are certainly taking cues from the private sector. We want that input, that feedback from these private companies, so that we know what the workforce needs the look like to adapt.”
Continuing, she noted that the American worker will be put first but also the various AI fearmongers can’t be given into, saying, “We can’t be, this is a fear tactic by many who say we’re not going to have the jobs, and that’s simply not true. We have to make sure that we’re protecting the American worker first.”
Turning that into a discussion of the H-1B program and what is going on with it, she said, “So you kind of brought up the H-1 B program, where there are companies across this nation who use this program that they’ve either abused it to get into the program, or they’re abusing it within the program. So I have launched an enforcement initiative, Project FireWall, to protect the American worker first against foreign labor and the abuse of these companies possibly have done.”
Explaining the scope of the operation targeting the various H-1B fraudsters, she said, “We have over 175 investigations that we’ve opened, and for the first time in history, as Secretary of Labor, I have signed those investigations personally because we want to make sure these companies are not abusing. We want to make sure that they’re protecting the American worker first by, one, posting the jobs available to Americans.”
She added, “Two, if they do need to use the H-1 B visa program, within the program we have to make sure they’re paying those fair wages, not to depress the American wages. And if that employer leaves that company, they have to make sure they’re posting that with the government so that we know where those employers have gone and those employees.”
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She concluded, explaining how the American worker is being protected and aided by the hard work of the Trump Administration: “Wo it’s been somewhat of a problem, but we want to protect the American worker first. And Project Firewall will do that. We will be actively investigating these companies if they’re getting in the way of protecting foreign workers over American workers.”
Watch the Secretary of Labor discuss how American workers are finally being put first here: