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A federal indictment was unsealed this week, revealing an alleged labor trafficking scheme out of Georgia where a group of defendants is accused of using the H-2A visa program to import foreign farm workers whom they then abused, stole from, and exploited.

A bill that would charge employers a $10,000 fee for filing a claim to the Department of Labor (DOL) to sponsor a foreign worker for a green card has been introduced by Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL), who said his proposal would give American citizens a “fair shot at the American Dream.”

Sen. Tim Sheehy (R-MT) is introducing legislation on Thursday that would suspend new H-1B visas for three years before resuming the program with a 25,000 annual cap on cap-subject visas, a $200,000 wage floor, and additional restrictions aimed at protecting American workers and addressing fraud and national security concerns.

Three defendants involved in a H-2A visa worker labor trafficking scheme, called “modern-day slavery” by prosecutors, have been sentenced, bringing the case to a close.

House Agriculture Committee Chairman Glenn Thompson (R-PA) is reportedly planning to roll out an expansion of the H-2A visa program, funneling more foreign workers into United States farm jobs. The move is likely to disincentivize farms from turning to robots and tech as a solution to labor challenges.

A California-based data software company violated federal employment discrimination laws by importing foreign workers for high-paying tech jobs instead of hiring qualified Americans, Labor Department officials say.

A bill that would pause the issuance of H-1B visas for three years to reform the program for when it resumes has been introduced by Rep. Eli Crane (R-AZ) and co-sponsored by a half dozen other House Republicans.

All net job growth is going to native-born Americans as foreign-born employment continues to decline, a new jobs report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics issued on Tuesday reveals.

The Trump White House is working to fix the affordability crisis, making “significant progress” in this area after Americans suffered under Bidenflation for years, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt pointed out during Thursday’s press briefing.

Sens. Jim Banks (R-IN) and Bill Cassidy (R-LA) are leading a bill to give the National Labor Relations Board power over investigating and prosecuting employers that hire illegal aliens, Breitbart News has exclusively learned.

The outlook for the college graduating class of 2026 has dimmed sharply as data shows employer hiring plans have stalled, job market ratings have slipped, and workforce competition has intensified due to automation and visa-based labor programs.

Nearly 200 investigations into potential abuses of the H-1B visa program have been launched as part of the Department of Labor’s (DOL) efforts to “combat discrimination against American workers,” agency officials reveal to Breitbart News.

Rep. Brittany Pettersen (D-CO) is complaining that President Donald Trump’s increased scrutiny of foreign nationals seeking temporary work visas is preventing Colorado ski resorts from importing foreign J-1 visa workers to fill American jobs.

The Department of Labor (DOL) has launched an enforcement initiative to “ensure no employers are abusing H-1B visas at the expense of our workforce” in line with President Donald Trump’s recent proclamation directing federal agencies to fix the foreign worker program.

Sen. Eric Schmitt says the H-1B visa is “kneecapping white collar workers” who are often laid off and forced to train their foreign replacements.

Elon Musk’s xAI has filed a lawsuit accusing former employee Xuechen Li, which the suit describes as a “Chinese national,” of stealing confidential information and trade secrets before resigning to join rival company OpenAI. Musk has been a long-time champion of H-1B visas and bringing in engineers from China and India, claiming they have talent that Americans lack.

President Donald Trump said Tuesday that his administration is focused on taking care of American workers when Breitbart News asked how the drop in foreign-born workers in the labor sector would benefit American workers.

Sen. Tom Cotton is introducing legislation that would end universities’ unlimited pipeline of foreign H-1B visa workers.

The DOJ has fined a Mississippi-based company for favoring foreign workers on H-2A visas over American job applicants.

Native-born Americans account for 100 percent of the nation’s job gains since January, when President Donald Trump took office, the Labor Department revealed.

President Donald Trump is growing the nation’s workforce by filling open jobs with native-born Americans, rather than importing more migrants to take such work, Bureau of Labor Statistics data reveals.

President Donald Trump has thrown out a federal rule from former President Joe Biden that had sought to give collective bargaining rights to foreign farm workers while excluding American farm workers from such benefits.

Republicans on the House Appropriations Committee joined Democrats in approving a plan that will allow United States businesses to import vastly more foreign workers for blue-collar American jobs in construction, landscaping, dairy farms, and carnivals, among other industries.

Peter Navarro, the senior counselor for trade and manufacturing for President Donald Trump, explained on “The Alex Marlow Show” podcast that virtually all new jobs created during the Biden administration went to newly arrived migrants who poured across the United States-Mexico border.

Colorado’s Democratic Gov. and Oklahoma’s Republican Gov. are asking President Trump to let state governors control a core immigration policy.

Teamsters Union President Sean O’Brien says the H-1B visa program “displaces” Americans from their middle-class jobs.

Saudi Arabia’s Neom project was meant to be the city of the future, the crowning achievement of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s “Saudi Vision 2030” plan to diversify the national economy away from oil. Unfortunately, the construction site for the city of the future has been plagued by complaints of gang rape, drinking, drugs, and attempted suicide by the 100,000 workers assembled there.

Foreign H-1B visa workers are “vastly underpaid” compared to their American counterparts doing the same work, researchers have found.

President-elect Donald Trump says he has “always been in favor” of the H-1B visa program that imports hundreds of thousands of foreign workers, primarily from India, to take white-collar American jobs.

Foreign H-1B visa workers received starting salaries about 10 percent less than their American counterparts at Deloitte, a multinational accounting firm whose wage data was hacked and published.

The majority of likely American voters says the United States does not need any more foreign H-1B visa workers to fill white-collar jobs, a new poll finds.

The choice of a policy adviser for AI in the next Trump administration has sparked widespread debate online over the H-1B visa program.

Tens of millions of native-born Americans are out of the labor market as foreign-born workers account for all net job growth over the last year, new analysis details.

A second federal judge has ruled against a federal rule, put forward by President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris’s Department of Labor, that gives collective bargaining rights to foreign farm workers while American farm workers are excluded.

President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) will funnel an additional 65,000 H-2B foreign visa workers into blue-collar jobs, even as Americans continue losing out in the labor market to an increasing flow of migrant workers.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau admitted amid his shrinking approval in the polls that the Canadian government had made “mistakes” regarding its pro-migration policy.