The Tech Companies Can Be Held Accountable for Discriminating Against American Workers
They've Broken the Law
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When King Henry VIII left the Roman Catholic Church and turned England Protestant, one of his most important actions was the dissolution of the monasteries. To break up the Establishment’s social power and replace it with powers more amenable to his new rule and new religion, he dissolved the monasteries and distributed their assets to various families of note, most of them new peers. It was in this period that some of the great peers of later days, such as the Russell (Dukes of Bedford) and Cavendish (Dukes of Devonshire) families, obtained the bases of their fortunes.
It was, in short, a vast transfer of wealth from those remnants of the old order that were hostile to the rule of King Henry to new men and members of the gentry who, because of the vast increase in wealth that came with their new position, would be loyal to the new regime. This was in many ways an eventual victory for traditionalism, as securing the fortunes of Britain’s aristocrats turned them into an eventually powerful political block that proved much more successful at keeping radicalism and egalitarianism out of the country than their continental peers, such as the weaker nobility of France.1
At the time, of course, the dissolution of the monasteries seemed quite different. It was an assault upon tradition, perhaps upon God. It seemed to cut against the property rights the established classes thought themselves secure in, showed the king to be far more powerful than monarchs of ages past,2 and was generally a form of social upheaval that conservative elements are quite against as a general thing.
But, in the end, the king’s power faded, Protestantism took deep root and encouraged religiosity amongst the English, and it was the landed elite empowered by the dissolution that became the powerful force for tradition that outmatched any of its continental peers. A little upheaval proved a great thing for the conservative elements in the long run.
Something of much the same sort is now needed in America. The Established powers are rotten, corrupt, and sclerotic. Their race communist religion3 is an imported faith4 in false gods,5 and it sits as a swollen tick atop the American body politic, sucking away our vigor as our financial, human, and social capital disintegrates like joints under assault from tick-carried Lyme disease. Only by destroying that disastrous force can we return to the America of ages past.
A modern dissolution of the monasteries is, thus, needed if we are to effect that.6 Capital of every sort—from the social power wielded by the largest organizations to the trillions of dollars in financial capital they possess—needs to be stripped from the guilty for the benefit of our allies, in a legal way.
Fortunately, the established powers—particularly the titanically powerful tech companies—have set themselves up for such a counteroffensive by breaking the law in a very serious and obvious way. They have abused the H-1B system in open fashion on a mammoth scale, and so have set themselves up to be treated like the monasteries under Henry.
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The H-1B Scam
An issue that has rightly risen to the fore in recent years is the H-1B visa, a tool that American companies, namely tech companies, use to drive down wages by importing Third Worlders.
It has proven extremely costly to Americans, with hundreds of thousands of jobs for Americans and billions of dollars in wages for Americans this year alone being lost to the ravages of cheap-labor programs.7
In fact, tech companies (and indeed many of America’s largest companies across all fields) are using the H-1B program and like visa programs as a means by which they can dispossess American workers and replace them with foreigners.
This can be seen well in 2025: so far, the tech companies have laid off 80,000 American employees,8 already over 84% of the already bloated 2024 layoff numbers,9 and they have hired tens of thousands of H-1B employees to replace those American workers. Just six months in, they have hit the H-1B petition cap,10 and well over 80% of new tech jobs have gone to foreigners, primarily those brought here via the H-1B visa.11
Microsoft, which is currently run by an Indian CEO, provided a particularly egregious example of this recently. The tech giant has so far laid off 16,000 Americans this year, including 8,000 in a batch of layoffs that was just announced. Then, alongside announcing that it was upending the lives of thousands of Americans, it announced it was applying for over 14,000 H-1B visas for foreign workers.12 It was quite literally firing Americans so that they could be replaced with cheaper foreigners.
Most of the other tech companies have done the same. Even supposedly pro-MAGA Palantir uses H-1B workers on sensitive national security projects.13 Apple and Amazon hire even more H-1Bs than Microsoft.14
The results of that anti-American attitude across the industry have transformed it. What was once a collection of companies built by American ingenuity has become a collection of trainwrecks staffed by employees imported to take the jobs of Americans so that the companies can shave a bit of money off of payroll.
The various visa types used (collectively referred to here as H-1Bs for simplicity), now account for 82% of new tech jobs.15 Two-thirds of Silicon Valley tech employees are foreigners.16 58% of American 2024 university graduates are still looking for their first job,17 and the majors with the highest unemployment rates now include serious majors like computer science and engineering.18
Tech companies have, in short, replaced their American workforces with foreigners, at immense cost to the American people. The best jobs—indeed even most reasonably good jobs—are staffed by foreigners here not because they are talented, but because they can be hired for less money19 and threatened with being sent home if they don’t comply with low wages.
Now Americans are dispossessed and poor at the same time as supposedly American companies are staffed by foreigners who make ever worse mistakes.20 At this point, many companies seem like scams meant to just place foreigners in American companies as contractors.21
The thing is, what these companies are doing is not just immoral. It’s illegal, which sets up the possibility of a dissolution of the monasteries-like counter-attack.
Why the H-1B Scam Is Illegal
The H-1B visa is not a legal free for all that lets America’s biggest companies do whatever they want to drive down wages with hordes of foreigners. Or, at least, it’s not supposed to be that.
Rather, the H-1B visa was established to allow employers to bring in a few select employees for specialized jobs requiring a college education that they could not fill by hiring American employees, and only if doing so would not undercut American wages.
In fact, the Department of Labor provides that the purpose of H-1B visas is to “help employers who cannot otherwise obtain needed business skills and abilities from the U.S. workforce by authorizing the temporary employment of qualified individuals who are not otherwise authorized to work in the United States.”22 Under those terms, "specialty occupation" is defined as “a position that requires specialized knowledge and skills”, and at least a bachelor's degree in that specialty.23
Further, the program “requires that the H-1B employer pay the H-1B employee the prevailing wage or the actual wage, whichever is higher. The prevailing wage is the salary paid to workers in similar occupations in the geographic area of the intended employment. The actual wage is the wage that the employer pays employees in similar occupations at the location of the intended employment.”24
While those are the legal requirements, the reality of what employers are doing is far different. For example, at the same time as 8% of American computer science grads sit unemployed,25 Microsoft is importing thousands of H-1B visa employees to do 1) entry-level work that 2) pays far less than the standard going rate.26 In fact, they pay H-1Bs up to 34% less than they pay Americans for comparable jobs,27 thus substantially undercutting Americans by bringing in H-1Bs.
Microsoft is, thus, breaking the law on two counts. First, it is using H-1Bs to undercut American wages, as shown by the massive differential in how little it is paying its H-1B employees compared to Americans. Second, it is lying when it claims that they are doing jobs it cannot find Americans to do, as there are thousands upon thousands of unemployed computer science graduates who would be doing exactly those jobs as the H-1Bs are currently doing. Yet worse, it fired thousands of American workers as it hired thousands of H-1Bs.
All the other tech companies have done the same. They have fired or refused to hire Americans and replaced them with foreigners while depressing the wages of those Americans as they still do hire by bringing in thousands of foreigners willing to work for relative peanuts. That is illegal, and the penalties can be severe.
The Penalties
Under H-1B law, there are a slew of criminal and civil penalties that can be brought to punish employers for breaking the visa law.28
On the civil side of things, employers like Microsoft that fire Americans within 90 days of hiring H-1Bs can be fined $67,367 (inflation adjusted for 2025 from the original $35,000)29 per violation,30 can be made to pay back wages to employees undercut by H-1Bs,31 and can be debarred from hiring further H-1B workers for years.32
If the fraudulent H-1Bs are not connected to firings, then the maximum is $9,624 per violation, but back wages and limitations on future H-1Bs can still be imposed.
Further, on the criminal side of things, employers can be imprisoned for up to six months for H-1B fraud,33 and face a $250,000 per-count criminal fine.
So, the total cost per fraudulent H-1B hire, if the criminal fine is added on top, is $317,367, and six months in prison for corporate executives. If unconnected to firings, it’s $259,624 plus prison time. As each H-1B is a new incident that adds on a new $259,624 fine, the amount stacks rapidly and scales to a titanic number.
And that is without including back wages, which are also significant, as H-1Bs are paid 34% less than comparable Americans.
There are perhaps 750,000 H-1B holders working in the US. For the purposes of this, let’s assume that just 80% of them are fraudulent, despite knowing it’s likely closer to 100%, given the number of unemployed college grads. So, assuming there are 600,000 fraudulent H-1Bs, most of whom work in the tech industry, $155,774,400,000 in fines could be levied, assuming none of them are connected to firings. If 20% of the H-1Bs were connected to firings, the total that could be levied in fines under existing law is $162,703,560,000.
Further, that could be multiplied, as years past could be considered too. That is just for one year, 2025. Similarly, it could be expanded dramatically if fired Americans are included in the fine number rather than just the H-1Bs, or if other visa types are included. Additionally, imposing back wages would add billions more dollars in costs.
But, for the purposes of simplicity, let’s assume for the purposes of this that the overall number that tech companies could be fined is somewhere around $160 billion per year, as they have been wilfully employing foreigners rather than Americans.
That would be a massive number, and could wreck most of them. While the tech companies had $1.9 trillion in earnings last year,34 their profits were “just” ~$364 billion. Levying a $160 billion fine this year, along with future fines if they continue fraudulently employing H-1Bs at the expense of Americans, would take a hatchet to their bottom lines, and imprisoning anyone connected to the fraud for 6 months—as is allowed under current US law—would do further damage.
Were Congress to double the fines, the profits of the afflicted companies would be largely gone. Were the fines to be tripled, their companies would start to implode as tens of billions of dollars in legal losses cut deep.
At the very least, it would be enough of a fiscal problem to push them back into hiring Americans, which would be the whole point. The point of H-1Bs is that they are cheaper than Americans; if they are instead hundreds of thousands of dollars more expensive, the incentive to hire them ends immediately.
Meanwhile, the tens, if not hundreds, of billions of dollars in fines could be used to pay off the student loans of students unable to find a job thanks to corporate malfeasance, build infrastructure or provide grants that help reshore American companies that hire Americans, or otherwise provide billions of dollars in wealth transfer away from the companies that have been intentionally harming Americans for the benefit of those Americans most harmed.
If the companies refused to comply, they would be crushed by the continual burden of paying well over $200k per H-1B in legal fines, seeing executives and hiring managers handcuffed and taken to jail, and paying the legal fees to deal with it all.
Without breaking any laws—indeed only by enforcing existing American law—the Trump Administration could batter the tech companies to their knees and, in a dissolution of the monasteries-like moment, bestow their riches upon client groups and allies. It is what the NGO-loving left has been doing for decades with grants, welfare benefits, cushy contracts, and the like. We might as well do it by enforcing the law.
Where There’s a Will, There’s a Way
All of that sounds a bit far-fetched and fantastical. “Even if it’s the law, surely the companies would squirm out of it, and even then it’s unlikely any of this would be enforced,” you’re probably thinking. Perhaps you‘re right. But, then again, it could be.
JD Vance is, whatever his faults, a serious person. He also has reason to hate corporate America, given what the Sacklers and like vampires did to his home.35 He just called for legal action to be taken against Microsoft, saying, "I don't want companies to fire 9,000 American workers and then go and say they can't find workers here in America. That's a bulls*** story."36
Similarly, President Trump has reason to hate the Democrat-supporting companies, and needs a major win to restore flagging support in the wake of the Epstein matter. He just suggested legal action is coming, saying, “Many of our largest tech companies have reaped the blessings of American freedom while building their factories in China, hiring workers in India... Under President Trump, those days are over!”37
Perhaps nothing will happen. But it could. H-1Bs can only be granted when no American workers can be found for a job, and they are not used to undercut American wages. In the case of the tech industry, American workers can clearly be found, and H-1B imports are clearly being used to undercut American wages.
That is a situation crying out for rectification, and it’s not impossible that Trump, Vance, or someone else could start the process and start bleeding these companies dry with fines, fees, penalties, prison, and legal costs.
Even the start of that would mean a massive return to hiring American workers, perhaps enough to make a difference in future elections, particularly if they become wealthier and more secure thanks to the new policy of actually enforcing the law.
It’s time to take action. Use the legal hammer and the penalties attached to it to dissolve America’s leftist monasteries, and use the proceeds to reward and support the next class of leaders.
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The relative economic and political positions of the different aristocracies of Europe is covered well by David Spring in European Landed Elites in the 19th Century. The British landed elite was by far the strongest.
This was a correct impression at the time, as is covered well in Kings in the North by Alexander Rose
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This data and the below chart visualizing it is quantified and put in easily readable form here: https://guestworkervisas.com/gwv/depriving1.php
95,000 tech layoffs were reported in 2024: https://news.crunchbase.com/startups/tech-layoffs/
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