Kamal Ghorui
American influencers are out in the streets of Texas to bust alleged H-1B abuse on camera.
As every other influencer in Texas is going out to bust Indians allegedly abusing their visas by working in shops, the immigration policy expert Rosemary Jenks said the blame is misplaced, as all the hate is piling upon the people living there, while Congress, which allowed the H-1B visa to become a pathway to residency, should be blamed. Appearing on Steve Bannon’s show, Jenks said H-1B visa was meant to be a three-year visa for specialty workers, but Congress decided that H-1B visa holders should stay indefinitely and then bring their families if they could find a company that was ready to sponsor them. “So these folks have been here on an H-1B visa for decades. That’s ridiculous. A temporary visa should be temporary. They should leave after three years. If we did that and if they could not bring their families to the US, they would be a lot less attractive to employers. Because employers would have to train new H-1B every three years and it would be a lot cheaper to hire Americans then,” Jenks said, blaming this policy behind the fraud in the program, the overwhelming number of H-1Bs.She also pointed out how a majority of the H-1Bs in the US start their journey and F-1 student visa holders and then they enter the system through Optional Practical Training (OPT), STEM OPT extension, and then the H-1B visa program. “Yes we should absolutely abolish the H-1B visa program but if the donor class would not allow Congress to do that, the least we can do is to make it a temporary visa again,” Jenks said.
Rise of anti-H-1B influencers in Texas
In the past few months, there has been a rise in anti-H-1B influencers in Texas who are making videos against the ‘Indian takeover’ of Texas and Frisco in particular. Journalist Sara Gonzales claimed to have busted ‘Ghost’ offices, which were listed as H-1B employers but she found nothing there when she visited. She also visited a food truck and found that an H-1B visa holder was working there, though the man claimed that he was just helping in his wife’s food truck after his office work. Now, YouTuber Tyler Oliveira made a detailed video on ‘Texas’ Indian invasion’ where he interviewed Indians in Texas and implicated them of fraud. Oliveira interviewed diplomat Mahvas Siddiqui, who earlier claimed to have witnessed H-1B fraud first-hand in India; he also interviewed attorney Chand Parvathaneni for his YouTube video.
