Staff Reports
President Trump just dropped a bombshell on the H-1B visa program, slapping a staggering $100,000 fee on new applications. This move is a masterstroke for American workers, long ignored and undercut by the tech industry’s insatiable hunger for cheap foreign labor. The result? Chaos in India’s political circles and cheers booming from the American working class. No wonder Indian officials are throwing a tantrum—they’ve been cashing in on this broken system for decades, funneling cheap talent into the U.S. while sending billions back home in remittances. It’s time America prioritized its own people over foreign freeloaders.
For years, the H-1B program has functioned as a loophole for corporations to pay less than market wages, suppressing American salaries and gutting job opportunities for U.S. graduates. Despite the glowing praise from Silicon Valley elites and their globalist cheerleaders, the truth is ugly: American tech workers have suffered under this relentless flood of foreign labor. Unemployment has climbed for homegrown computer science grads even as foreign STEM workers doubled from 2000 to 2019. Yet, the corporate cronies and open-borders fanatics screamed for more, not less. Trump’s hefty fee finally puts a stop to this exploitation.
💥 Trump just slapped a $100K/year fee on H-1B visas!
India supplies ~71% of H-1Bs, mostly STEM/IT.
US firms now forced to hire Americans- or pay a fortune.#H1BVisa #IndiaTech #Trump pic.twitter.com/prAKw8aXE6— The Alternate Media (@AlternateMediaX) September 20, 2025
Predictably, India’s leaders hit the roof. They called the fee “unacceptable” and warned of “unimaginable suffering” for their tech workers in the U.S. But who is really suffering here? American families struggling to put food on the table or tech giants drowning in cheap imports? The outrage from India rings hollow when you realize they’ve been leveraging the H-1B program as a massive export machine for talent and cash. India’s dominance of this visa system has cost countless American jobs and has become a simmering source of economic resentment. Trump’s administration is daring to pull the plug on this unfair game.
Sure, some big shots like Elon Musk warned that slowing skilled immigration might hurt innovation. But innovation doesn’t mean tossing aside American workers for foreign temp labor. True innovation comes from a workforce fairly compensated and motivated. It shouldn’t be subsidized by importing lower-wage workers under the guise of “skill.” The new fee won’t stop necessary immigration—it’s a smart barrier preventing companies from exploiting the program to cut costs at America’s expense. The fee is also a middle ground, not a ban, designed to hedge against the corporate abuse of the system while keeping the door open to truly needed talent.
Liberal elites and their globalist overlords will scream that this move is cruel or anti-immigrant. But the only cruelty lies in years of enabling corporate bosses to exploit cheap foreign labor while ignoring American workers’ plight. This $100,000 fee is a bold, unapologetic step toward reclaiming control of our labor market and putting American interests first. If this shakes India’s tech powerhouse and rattles Silicon Valley’s comfort zone, good. America is done playing patsy to globalist agendas and foreign special interests. When will the establishment learn that protecting hardworking Americans must come first? The question isn’t if tougher actions like this are needed—it’s how long before their reckless open borders and cheap labor obsession finally cost America the prosperity it deserves.
