My company is a traditional manufacturer but we hire a lot of H1B's. Lately a lot of hispanics, Africans, and women of any race to "reach diversity goals".

But we have a lot of Indians engineers too. One plant hired a bunch for a major project that I helped plan and quote, and I am not the corporate technical advisor for. None of them seem to have any prior relevant experience in similar products or processes so they are mostly a bunch of beginners. And they keep adding more because they can't get the work done on time. The engineering director in that plant is Indian.

Meanwhile a similar project in the UK that I am also the advisor for was done with much fewer people, but ones who had experience in that plant, and other plants in my company. This includes an Indian project manager that we brought in from one or our India plants because he's damn good.

President Trump is calling out Pam Bondi on Truth Social.

Pam: I have reviewed over 30 statements and posts saying that, essentially, “same old story as last time, all talk, no action. Nothing is being done. What about Comey, Adam “Shifty” Schiff, Leticia??? They’re all guilty as hell, but nothing is going to be done.” Then we almost put in a Democrat supported U.S. Attorney, in Virginia, with a really bad Republican past. A Woke RINO, who was never going to do his job. That’s why two of the worst Dem Senators PUSHED him so hard. He even lied to the media and said he quit, and that we had no case. No, I fired him, and there is a GREAT CASE, and many lawyers, and legal pundits, say so. Lindsey Halligan is a really good lawyer, and likes you, a lot. We can’t delay any longer, it’s killing our reputation and credibility. They impeached me twice, and indicted me (5 times!), OVER NOTHING. JUSTICE MUST BE SERVED, NOW!!! President DJT

https://truthsocial.com/@realD...s/115239044548033727

Uh-oh. Is that for real? I don't know anything about Truth Social.

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Uh-oh. Is that for real? I don't know anything about Truth Social.

Yes. That's for real.

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Originally posted by Rick Lee:
While it's good to make US companies hire more Americans, it's not right to deny entry to H1 holders who came here legally and left temporarily, while still in status, likely with family back in the US, believing they'd have no problem returning. There needs to be some warning and lead time here.

I used to work for an Indian company that is probably exhibit A for why this measure is needed. But their H1 holders have families settled in the US and did nothing wrong. Go after the employers. Denying entry to the H1 holder is just going to make their dependents still in the US more vulnerable to unscrupulous employers.

So, you now believe that Visa holders should be allowed to enter the country on the basis of “they didn’t do anything wrong”?

Garbage.

IT’S A VISA.

Not citizenship. This whole entitlement thing is tiring. Abusing visa requirements is no different that sneaking across the border in the dead of night.

No one here is entitled to jobs. Most jobs have no requirements to give warning or notice. Why are Visa holders entitled to be given “warning” they have to leave a country they are a guest in? Or no longer return to?

If they have a family here and they want to become a citizen, there’s a legal process for that.

The visa holders are not the ones abusing the law. Their employers are (maybe). The visa holders in this situation have done nothing wrong. Why should they be punished?

It's a rules change for a specific Visa requirement. All sovereign countries reserve the right to change Visa specifics when they see fit to do so.

Their employers can also pay the new fee if they see fit. Or not.

It isn't a 'punishment' as I understand it. If they view it as such, that really isn't our primary concern.

Pam Bondi's days are numbered, afaic.

Trump hounds Bondi to prosecute adversaries in now-deleted social media post: 'They're all guilty as hell'
President demands prosecutions of Comey, Schiff and James in now-deleted Truth Social message

Trump savages Pam Bondi as he leaks brutal text message listing her failings... and tells her: I want Lindsey
By JAMES CIRRONE, US NEWS REPORTER
PUBLISHED: 20:53 EDT, 20 September 2025 | UPDATED: 22:39 EDT, 20 September 2025

President Donald Trump has launched an extraordinary attack on Attorney General Pam Bondi over her failure to take Deep State scalps.

The president appeared to leak a private message he had sent to Bondi accusing her of 'all talk, no action' and demanding successful prosecutions of his political enemies.

Trump listed off FBI Director James Comey, Sen. Adam Schiff of California, and New York Attorney General Letitia James, claiming 'they're all guilty as hell.'

The president told Bondi, 'We can't delay any longer, it's killing our reputation and credibility.'

Much of his fury was directed at the outgoing US attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, Erik Siebert, who declined to prosecute James for mortgage fraud over what he said was a lack of evidence.

Siebert also failed to prosecute Comey after Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard accused him of threatening Trump in a social media post.

Siebert resigned last week but Trump in his Truth Social post claimed that he'd been fired.

'He even lied to the media and said he quit, and that we had no case. No, I fired him, and there is a GREAT CASE, and many lawyers, and legal pundits, say so,' Trump wrote.

Trump floated a replacement for Siebert in the post, Lindsey Halligan, a member of the White House counsel, who has a track record of defending the president in court - including the classified documents case.



In a follow-up post made about a half hour later, Trump officially announced his intention to nominate Halligan to the US Attorney position in Virginia's eastern district.

He described Siebert as a 'Democrat Endorsed 'Republican'' and said Halligan will 'be Fair, Smart, and will provide, desperately needed, JUSTICE FOR ALL!'

Trump also walked back his prior exasperated tone with Bondi, saying she is 'doing a GREAT job.'

The earlier post, which appeared to be a deliberate leak of a private text message he had sent to Bondi, was an extraordinary public attack on the nation's top prosecutor.

Trump's frustration with the AG over her failed efforts to prosecute his political enemies comes as her position is already weakened by the Jeffrey Epstein debacle.

Bondi, a longtime Trump loyalist who defended him during his first impeachment trial and served as Florida AG from 2011 to 2019, was appointed with expectations she'd aggressively pursue revenge and 'drain the swamp.'

Trump's main targets, Comey, Schiff and James, ran what the president describes as 'witch hunts', orchestrated by the Deep State to ruin his credibility before the electorate.

Trump fired Comey as FBI chief in 2017 amid the FBI's investigation into Russian election interference, which the president has repeatedly called a hoax.

Schiff, a vocal Trump critic and high-ranking Democrat Representative from California, led the 2019 impeachment inquiry into Trump over withholding aid from Ukraine.

Democratic New York AG James brought the 2022 civil fraud trial against the Trump Organization which resulted in a $454 million judgment. It is currently under appeal.

Trump's backers argue these figures represent the unchecked partisanship of the liberal elite; while his critics claim that his demands for prosecutions are an authoritarian overreach which ignores the rule of law.

The president has set his sights on the US Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Virginia, a key federal prosecutorial hub where he is pushing for investigations into the trio.

To help Bondi fulfil this task, Trump now wants his trusted attorney Halligan in the role.

The glamorous lawyer has been representing Trump for years, most prominently serving as one of his attorneys in the case against him for retaining classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida.

In August 2024, that case was dismissed by US District Judge Aileen Cannon, with her arguing that Special Prosecutor Jack Smith's appointment was unconstitutional.

Smith appealed the ruling to the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals, which then formally dismissed the case in February 2025, marking its end.

More recently, Halligan was leading the charge in Trump's review of historical exhibits at the Smithsonian.

In an August interview with Fox News, Halligan said slavery was an overemphasized topic at the museum in Washington, D.C.

'The fact our country was involved in slavery is awful — no one thinks otherwise,' she said.

'But what I saw when I was going through the museum, personally, was an overemphasis on slavery, and I think there should be more of an overemphasis on how far we've come since slavery.'

'There's a lot of history to our country, both positive and negative, but we need to keep moving forward. We can't just keep focusing on the negative — all that does is divide us,' she added.

Halligan's promotion comes after Bondi reportedly tapped Mary 'Maggie' Cleary to be the acting US attorney in that office.

Cleary has served as an assistant US attorney in the Western District of Virginia and is perhaps most known for her attempts to beat back an allegation made by an anonymous individual that she was present during the January 6 Capitol Riot.

Cleary, a conservative Republican, was briefly placed on administrative leave but was cleared after a brief internal investigation, Politico reported.

If Halligan is to become the permanent US attorney, she will have to be confirmed by the Senate.

Since the Republicans have a 53-seat majority in the Senate, it is likely she will ascend to the position.

I think maybe somebody got to her.

Stow that shit.

How in the world can you not know to not post this ridiculous conspiracy shit in this forum?

The how and why doesn’t matter, the fact that she hasn’t really done a thing except grandstand in front of the cameras is enough for me. Get rid of her. All talk, no action.

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his critics claim that his demands for prosecutions are an authoritarian overreach which ignores the rule of law.

The critics will bitch no matter what he does. That isn’t new.
It really is just another cases of “Trump walks on water!” Headlines read: “Trump can’t swim!”

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The how and why doesn’t matter, the fact that she hasn’t really done a thing except grandstand in front of the cameras is enough for me. Get rid of her. All talk, no action.

Jeff Sessions 2.0

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Originally posted by Rick Lee:
The visa holders are not the ones abusing the law. Their employers are (maybe). The visa holders in this situation have done nothing wrong. Why should they be punished?

I want all H1Bs out of the country. America first. “Why should they be punished” is a terrible question (no disrespect intended) because it misses the point: we don’t need them. They are guest help, and the program didn’t actually help. 100% of them need to go.

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100% of them need to go.

Yes sir.

We have more than enough people here to work. They may need to be incentivized to do so, but that's OK.

If you want to come here to work, apply for citizenship.

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Originally posted by arabiancowboy:

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Originally posted by Rick Lee:
The visa holders are not the ones abusing the law. Their employers are (maybe). The visa holders in this situation have done nothing wrong. Why should they be punished?

I want all H1Bs out of the country. America first. “Why should they be punished” is a terrible question (no disrespect intended) because it misses the point: we don’t need them. They are guest help, and the program didn’t actually help. 100% of them need to go.

Now they are saying the $100K fee is for new applications only and not an annual fee and not for renewals. $100K into 3 years plus a 3 year renewal is less than 20K a year. Not a high price for employers to get highly qualified help, but probably enough to prevent H1B's for entry level jobs.

Corporations are still pushing DEI and racial quotas. Hispanic and African immigrants on H1's are a big source of people to meet racial quotes, even though newcomers have never suffered from "systemic historical racism". There just aren't enough qualified people to meet the quotas with only American minorities.

And of course, as they chase "population parity" for black and hispanic, while still hiring tons of Indians, ony ONE group is systemically UNDER population parity.

What happened to all refugees that Biden imported?

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Originally posted by Rick Lee:
The visa holders are not the ones abusing the law. Their employers are (maybe). The visa holders in this situation have done nothing wrong. Why should they be punished?

I want all H1Bs out of the country. America first. “Why should they be punished” is a terrible question (no disrespect intended) because it misses the point: we don’t need them. They are guest help, and the program didn’t actually help. 100% of them need to go.

Ok, end the program. But don't bar legal visa holders, who came here legally and remained in status, from returning to their jobs, homes and families. Plenty of those folks go back to their home countries for vacation with the expectation that they can return to the US while their visas are valid.

So, you believe that once someone obtains a Visa, their “home” is now in the US? Really? You are confused at best.

The US is no more the “home” of an H1B visa holder, than it’s the “home” of an illegal who crossed the border at night and works at a local lawn mowing business. The fact they have family in this country also has nothing to do with their Visa status. Your arguments for keep repeating the same thing as if it has merit. It does not.

America first.