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No matter how MAGA debate ends, H-1B visas have an undeniable fraud problem

Two cases at end of 2024 affirm long-held warnings that immigration and visa programs need more supervision, accountability.

Shortly before Americans celebrated Christmas, two federal criminal cases affirmed long-standing warnings that the government’s H-1B visa program was ripe for fraud, and slow to bring accountability.

The cases in California and Illinois brought some long-awaited justice to schemes that have tried to help companies rig a system designed for narrow high-tech skills to instead hire foreigners for jobs that should have gone to Americans.