Abbott's H1-B Agenda Needs Explaining

Monitoring the H1-B crisis.

Many people are saying that Trump and some of his rich and powerful Texas friends are wrong about needing H-1B visas, and that the days of politicians bragging about economic growth built upon scams like importing cheap labor from the third world are over.

This article is an expanded version of a preview we published Friday.

First, it’s important to understand there is a large effort to mislead Americans on the H-1B program, acting as one piece of a larger, hate-fueled agenda to bring as many people into our country as possible. For example, when you pull up the topic in Wikipedia, you are led to believe there are less than 100k H-1B’s issued every year.

This is where most people will stop researching. However, you’ll notice on the last bullet point there are “exemptions” for “certain employers.”

That’s where ol’ boy Greg comes in.

Yes, businesses are getting exemptions past the 65,000 cap. In fact, the number of H-1B visas admitted every year isn’t even 90,000. According to the American Immigration Council, it was 755,000 in 2023.

Somewhere around 75% of these are from India.

The justifications for this insanity have usually looked like this:

An unbelievable admission of hatred, and a lifting of the mask from someone who will apparently be in the Trump government.

I don’t want to get into the fact that 500+ million people in India defecate outside on the ground every day (because ew), or how the average IQ in India is 76, or that 800+ million Indians are on government welfare, because apparently the complaint is American “culture.” That’s fair—we have some problems. If you think this sounds like a reasonable explanation for the H-1B program, but have never been to India, you can learn about the culture of India in this video.

We know where Greg Abbott stands on the H-1B issue. He is constantly going on recruiting trips to India.

According to the expert on Indian culture from the video, it’s unlikely Greg Abbott’s pitch about the US Constitution was a strong selling point to Indian business leaders. Historically, Abbott has relied on the “tools” at his disposal, such as offering money in exchange for business.

(The practice of a politician offering to give money to a businessman in exchange for something has a name, but I can’t think of it right now.)

The Texas Enterprise Fund (TEF) is a program where the Texas government gives corporations cash incentives for them to expand, under one important condition: the company promises to create a specified number of new jobs in the local community.

Controlled entirely by Greg Abbott, the TEF is one of the many scams that just keeps on scamming. We have been monitoring the situation with the TEF since 2021.

The official claim about the TEF program is that handing out tax dollars to multinational corporations is a recruitment tool.

The Texas Enterprise Fund is a business incentive fund that was created by legislation in 2003… One of Texas’ most competitive recruitment tools, these funds are used primarily to attract new business to the state or assist with the substantial expansion of an existing business as part of a competitive recruitment situation.

Infosys Ltd., is an Indian multinational company headquartered in Bengaluru that offers business consulting and IT outsourcing services. Their Richardson, TX location has received over $3 million from the TEF over the last 4 years, promising to create 500 jobs, according to government records.

Infosys said they would be hiring 500 “Texans.”

As part of our commitment to hire American workers, Infosys opened a Technology and Innovation Hub in Texas. Our sixth hub in the US, it will employ 500 Texans and help companies in telecom, banking, and retail accelerate their digital transformation journeys.

Earlier this year, Greg Abbott went to India to meet with Infosys and other Indian outsourcing companies, promising to “strengthen ties.” If there’s anyone who knows that millions of dollars in donations can strengthen ties, it’s Greg Abbott.

Infosys Ltd. was previously fined $34M by U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for what ICE said was “systemic visa fraud and abuse of immigration processes.”

So how did Infosys spend the taxpayer funds received from the TEF? Well, since money is a fungible resource, the money simply vanishes, and it cannot be known. However, they did promise to create 500 jobs in Richardson.

However, public data shows that during the years TEF funding was being distributed to Infosys in Richardson, the company imported thousands of H-1B workers from India.

Another recipient of a seven-figure payment from Abbott’s TEF is a company with the exact same business model, Cognizant Technology Solutions. They promised to create 750 jobs in Irving, Texas. Let’s check in, and see how that’s going:

The thousands of Indians on H-1B Visas brought to Texas to work for Cognizant in Irving are not free to work for other employers like normal American workers. They can only work for Cognizant.

(Being forced to work, and not being free to work somewhere else has a name, but I can’t think of it right now.)

The H-1B Visa crisis has officially been noticed, and Texans are starting to realize how “legal” immigration and its associated chain migration has been exploited to their detriment.

The use of H-1B’s is popular for one very simple reason: cheaper labor. This graphic has widely been circulated on X.

According to data indexed from the Labor Condition Application (LCA) disclosure data from the United States Department of Labor (DOL), many of the over 4,000 H-1B jobs at Infosys in Richardson were “consultants” making $70k. Hardly the blue-chip talent touted by the elites when they shill this program.

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Many people are asking how giving taxpayer money to Indian companies to bring over Indians helps Texans, or why India is so eager to export all their alleged talent. Many more people are asking why China, who will lie, cheat, and steal to win in the race of the world’s super powers, is not importing millions of Indians themselves if this kind of behavior is the path to prosperity.

The answer is fairly obvious.

From the windmills to the wall, the “economic miracle” that elected officials brag about in Texas does not coincide with the quality of life for the average Texan. Many people now find they have new neighbors from the other side of the world that they cannot communicate with, and with Trump coming back in 14 days, many people are asking if we can fix this.

So far, Trump has indicated he will make the H1-B crisis much worse.