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Solving the H-1B Visa Problem

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Some corporations have been using the H-1B Visa program to avoid hiring and paying American workers the wages they deserve. The H-1B Visa program was set up to allow American corporations to import workers to do jobs Americans might not be qualified for or able to do. Unfortunately, some corporations have used it as a way to bring in cheaper labor from overseas and avoid paying American workers a living wage.

On Friday, The Dallas Morning News reported:

An entry‑level software engineer in San Francisco would need to be paid $162,000 a year to qualify for an H‑1B visa under a Trump administration proposal — almost 30% more than today. In Dallas, the minimum would jump by a similar rate to $113,000 and in New York to $132,000.

Those are the types of pay increases potentially in store for immigrants using the most popular path for white-collar workers to enter or stay in the US. It’s part of changes to the H-1B program that the Trump administration says will help prevent foreigners from undercutting Americans’ wages.

The plan to boost minimum salaries would cost the biggest employers of white-collar foreign talent at least $18 billion in the first 12 months, according to an analysis by immigration data companies Lawfully and Threshold. Within three years — when most existing H-1B visas will have to be renewed at the higher level — the annual cost could reach as high as $43 billion, the study found.

The H-1B Visa program has been abused in order to lower the cost of employee salaries. The other problem with the program is that much of the money earned by the people in the program is sent out of America to other countries and never enters the American economy. It is a drain on our economy rather than a part of our economy. It truly is time to reform the program.

Reporting Only Half Of The Story

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On Tuesday, The Western Journal posted an article about the mainstream media’s reports on the impact of President Trump’s tariffs on America’s economy. The focus of the mainstream media is on how much the tariffs are costing the average American. If you are an average American, you might have noticed a little more money in your pocket at the end of the month–not less. The cost of the tariffs had been more than made up for by the lowering of the gasoline prices. If we could just finish getting other energy prices down, we would have it made.

The article reports:

Media outlets were quick to glom onto a study that found President Donald Trump’s tariffs resulted in a $1,000 increase in costs to the average American household.

However, they did not couple it with the savings Americans are experiencing overall, thanks to Trump’s economic policies, which more than offset the price of tariffs.

The Tax Foundation, which leans conservative, does not like tariffs, as its latest study confirms. They came out strongly against Trump’s tariffs beginning in February 2025, shortly after he took office.

ABC News reported, “The research called Trump’s tariffs ‘the largest U.S. tax increase as a percent of GDP since 1993.’ It suggests the president’s signature economic policy is exacerbating cost of living concerns at a time when many households are grappling with persistently high prices.

“According to the research think tank Tax Foundation, the federal government collected $264 billion in total tariff revenues in 2025 — far short of the trillions regularly touted by the White House. The research also finds the tariffs will offset most of the economic benefits of the new tax cuts from Trump’s signature tax law that took effect this year,” the news outlet added.

The article concludes:

During a recent appearance on Megyn Kelly’s podcast, Vice President J.D. Vance said, “If you look at the numbers on affordability, they are starting to move in our direction.”

“There’s clear movement from where there was, say, four or five months ago,” he added.

Vance went on to note that due to inflation spiking to over 9 percent during the Biden administration, the average household lost about $3,000 in buying power.

Meanwhile, “The average American household … has gained about $1,200 during the Trump administration,” he said, arguing that this is why people are still feeling the pinch, because they are still $1,800 per year poorer than when Biden took office in 2021.

“We recognize there’s still a lot of work to do,” the vice president argued, but things are going in the right direction.

If you take tariffs in the context of everything else Trump and his team are doing economically, Americans are definitely better off than they were under Biden.

It would be nice if the mainstream media would report the WHOLE story.