The Six-Figure H1B Fee Isn’t About Protecting Jobs. It’s a Shakedown.
The proposed six-figure H1B visa fee isn’t an effort to protect American workers—it’s a political shakedown. By making it prohibitively expensive to hire foreign talent, the government is forcing Big Tech to the negotiating table to extract lobbying concessions. The real outcome? Companies will offshore jobs entirely, shrinking the U.S. tax base and gutting local economies.