INGRATE BRITAIN: 'Good Place' star Jameela Jamil calls fellow Brits 'evil,' likens them to Marvel villain
Cambodia under Pol Pot. The Soviet Union under Stalin. Nazi Germany under Hitler.
According to actress Jameela Jamil, none of them compares with the evil that is ... Britain.
'They are Thanos. Britain is Thanos. They owe 43 trillion to India. We colonized the world.'
A statement this stupid could only come from an entitled celebrity on a podcast. Check, and check.
'Good' riddance
Jamil recently appeared on something called "Yestergays" (nope, no idea either — sounds thrilling) to humblebrag about her career when she decided to engage in some good old-fashioned Brit-bashing. Discussing her role on the NBC sitcom "The Good Place" — in which she played a shallow British-Pakistani socialite — the London-born actress said that she had to make her character intentionally unlikable because of her home country's historical record.
Proving that a person can be so dense that light bends around them, Jamil said: “But I just had to make her more of a bitch ... because Americans think British people are so sweet, which is crazy because British people are truly the most evil people in history.”
Great — just what I needed, a history lesson from the star of “She-Hulk: Attorney at Law.”
Normally I wouldn’t waste the skin on my fingers typing a response. Ill-informed, attention-seeking actors are a dime a dozen. But as a freeborn Englishman — proud to share a heritage with Thomas Paine and John Milton — I was stunned. I had to take time out from my busy schedule of torturing animals and punching children in the face just to gather my thoughts.
Raj-podge
It takes a special kind of dumb to dismantle centuries of British history from the brutal, oppressive trenches of a Los Angeles podcast studio. One can only admire the sacrifices Ms. Jamil makes daily — enduring the tyranny of hot yoga and air-conditioned trailers, bravely fighting the British Raj one iced chai latte at a time.
Because, as we are all meant to believe these days, before the British showed up, the world was a peaceful utopia. The Ottomans specialized in consent-based border expansions, the Kingdom of Dahomey was merely hosting neighborhood barbecues, and India's Thuggee cult was running a roadside assistance program. History was a serene, harmonious folk festival until a white man in London decided to chart the high seas and ruin it for everyone.
Any serious historian knows that to truly understand the past, you must contend with economics, politics, religion, personalities, geography, and pure chance. Or you can try Jamil's considerably simpler method of reducing a sprawling, centuries-long empire to an intergalactic purple despot in a Marvel movie:
“They are Thanos. Britain is Thanos. They owe 43 trillion to India. We colonized the world.”
Shrillionaire
$43 trillion? Believe it or not, Jamil didn’t do that back-of-the-envelope calculation herself.
No, she’s parroting a theory revived by Marxist economist Utsa Patnaik. The idea that British rule created a “drain of wealth” from India is more than a century old; Indian nationalists such as Dadabhai Naoroji were making versions of the argument during the Victorian era.
Patnaik’s contribution was to exhume the disputed theory and attach a suitably comic-book-size number to it: $45 trillion.
That figure is not an accounting of money or treasure Britain can be shown to have carried away. Patnaik arrives at it by treating India’s colonial export surpluses as uncompensated transfers and compounding their estimated value at 5% over generations. In other words, the $45 trillion is less an amount found in a ledger than the hypothetical present-day value of money her theory assumes was stolen in the first place.
Economic historians have criticized the drain theory for decades. The argument also assumes that wealth remaining in India would automatically have been invested productively there — something impossible to prove and contradicted by much of the historical record.
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Jamil’s world
In Jamil’s world, centuries of complex history are reduced to an image of Dick Dastardly twirling his mustache and making off with bags marked with dollar signs. No, we did not ransack India. Long before the high tide of empire, England was already a wealthy, highly productive nation. According to historians Stephen Broadberry and Bishnupriya Gupta, as early as the 16th century — long before the East India Company ever set foot in Bengal — England’s GDP per capita was so high that India would not match it until the late 1990s.
And when we were there, we laid thousands of miles of railway track and roadways, constructed deep-water ports in Bombay and Madras, established irrigation systems, and introduced representative governance.
We also helped outlaw barbaric practices like sati (widow burning) and introduced municipal sanitation as the bedrock of a hygienic civilization — not to mention the billions in development capital and financial assistance Britain has pumped into the country since.
We left nearly 80 years ago, and India is now a space-faring global economic superpower — so if people are still defecating in the street, that’s on you, literally. It’s like everything else we left behind: We built the framework, but it’s up to you what you actually do with it.
Passage from India
And while Ms. Jamil treats history as a one-way moral ledger in which Britain holds a monopoly on human suffering, she turns a blind eye to the present. According to the Global Slavery Index, over 11 million people in India today live in modern slavery — trapped in forced labor, debt bondage, and forced child marriage.
Britain is evil? If that’s true, somebody needs to tell the nearly 1 million Indian nationals who migrated to the U.K. between June 2020 and June 2025. Not to mention the roughly 880,000 Indian-born residents already living in Britain before the post-pandemic migration surge.
Of course, it would be wrong to single out poor Jamil. She’s hardly the first celebrity descendant of immigrants to slam the country that allowed her family to flourish. Jamil is simply singing from the hymn sheet of the church of identity politics, doing the bidding of what Deirdre McCloskey terms “the clerisy,” our modern opinion-forming priestly class — worshipping the holy trinity of diversity, equity, and inclusion.
Hate the sin, not the sinner. Jamil is merely reciting the liturgy of modern secular religion. Strip away the histrionics, makeup, and logic-free platitudes, and you’re left with a recycled godless version of Calvinist predestination — where systemic racism is original sin and inherited guilt becomes a lifelong sentence with no possibility of atonement.
A new threat on American streets: Inside the rise of Indian gangs
For decades, Hollywood fed us a steady diet of tracksuit-wearing Gambino soldiers whining about their mothers and cartoonishly tattooed cartel enforcers threatening to dissolve people in vats of premium tequila.
But those legacy brands are officially losing market share to a heavily armed, highly aggressive corporate competitor that weaponizes car horns to deafen the opposition. International syndicate networks tied directly to India are systematically restructuring the geography of global street violence, proving that globalization works beautifully for extortion rackets too.
By establishing these isolated, closed-off cultural zones, these factions maintain a fierce allegiance to old-world tribal hierarchies.
Playing 'Hard Ball'
California serves as the primary battleground for a ruthless wave of Indian organized crime tearing through the state. These syndicates use major metropolitan hubs as operations bases for massive drug trafficking corridors and organized intimidation schemes. Federal agents recently dismantled a major cell during Operation Hard Ball, arresting 11 Indian operatives across targeted raids in Los Angeles and Sacramento.
Investigators seized massive stockpiles of high-grade narcotics, automatic weapons, and cash, exposing a highly sophisticated network built for domination rather than minor street theft. This aggressive expansion shows exactly how foreign syndicates import overseas violence directly into the heart of American suburban communities. India is best known for bowel-blasting street food and a population of drivers apparently trained exclusively in demolition derbies. The American public would do well to update its perspective — fast. That goes for the rest of the West too, because this brand of trouble spans continents.
The expansion strategy mimics that of a tech startup, rapidly scaling operations across Europe and the Great White North. Take Portugal, for instance. The historic streets of Lisbon and the sunny coastal regions of the Algarve are currently experiencing an influx of Punjab-themed turf wars. Rival Indian syndicates are actively fighting over localized human smuggling routes and synthetic drug distribution rights, turning once-peaceful European plazas into active combat zones.
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Canada war zone
Meanwhile, Canada has become something of a war zone. In the suburban sprawl of Surrey, British Columbia, and the Greater Toronto Area, daylight drive-by shootings are now a standard feature. These are high-volume tactical ambushes executed on public streets with automatic weapons.
Organized crime expert Martin Purbrick notes that the massive Indian diaspora across the United Kingdom, Canada, and the United States provides the perfect camouflage for foreign syndicates. Because these criminal networks integrate effortlessly into pre-existing social and cultural enclaves, they remain entirely invisible to outside law enforcement.
This insulating effect is particularly troubling in the United States, where a massive influx of Indian nationals flood the country utilizing heavily abused H-1B visa programs, fraudulent tech certifications, and rubber-stamped degrees from fake universities to set up illicit cash-heavy operations under the guise of legitimate business.
For those who argue that these people are simply desperate migrants seeking a better life, I would argue that if an individual is entirely comfortable breaking federal immigration laws and committing systemic document fraud just to enter the country, there is absolutely no reason to believe he will suddenly develop a moral conscience and stop breaking the law once he is safely inside.
Clannish communities
And once inside, the immediate consequences are clear. In Texas, suburban stretches outside Dallas and Houston have been completely overrun by waves of rapid migration. The sudden demographic shift is sobering because it features a total lack of assimilation. Instead of adopting local Texan culture, these highly clannish Indian communities stubbornly lock themselves into insular, self-governing pockets that refuse any meaningful integration with the broader American population.
This refusal to assimilate allows them to import third-world values directly into respectable neighborhoods from a nation where female genital mutilation, forced child marriages, and primitive honor killings are routine societal practices. By establishing these isolated, closed-off cultural zones, these factions maintain a fierce allegiance to old-world tribal hierarchies. This absolute rejection of Western legal and social standards provides a protected operational base for crime syndicates, allowing them to enforce their own brutal brand of street justice entirely outside the reach of American law.
Normalized savagery
When a syndicate recruits enforcers raised in an environment where killing your own sibling is considered a legitimate way to preserve family reputation, putting a bullet in someone’s head to settle a drug debt becomes second nature. This normalized savagery feeds directly into the operational tactics used on streets in America and beyond.
Modern law enforcement agencies are forced to adapt to a criminal structure that operates like a multinational corporation rather than a traditional street corner crew. The hierarchy relies on distinct, siloed departments handling recruitment, international money laundering, transport logistics, and tactical intimidation. The primary advantage these syndicates maintain is their ability to exploit the immigrant communities they embed themselves within. Victims of extortion may refuse to contact authorities due to targeted threats directed at their relatives back in the homeland.
With over 3 million Indian nationals now residing in America, the scale of this blind spot is staggering. While the multiculturalist consensus assumes the vast majority are law-abiding, it is past time to acknowledge the harsh reality. A significant and growing number are not, having entered the country through illicit, fraudulent, or entirely illegal means. It is precisely this undercurrent of lawlessness that provides the perfect, impenetrable human shield, enabling foreign thugs to operate with total impunity on American soil.
Sara Gonzales LIVID: Indian man caught publicly defecating in Texas neighborhood
The state of Texas continues to experience a mass influx of Indian immigrants, who are now the largest Asian subgroup in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex. The increase in population growth is in part due to the state’s robust H-1B program. Indian nationals consistently receive roughly 70% of all approved H-1B visas in Texas due to its booming tech, IT, and engineering sectors.
It’s no surprise, then, that the majority of the H-1B fraud cases and investigations that have been publicly reported or pursued in Texas in recent years involve Indian nationals, Indian-origin individuals, or firms primarily serving Indian workers.
BlazeTV’s Sara Gonzales has been at the forefront of these investigations — busting allegedly fraudulent Indian-run businesses claiming to sponsor H-1B visa workers. Her work was the catalyst for Governor Greg Abbott’s freeze on new H-1B hires at state agencies and universities and Attorney General Ken Paxton’s state investigations and lawsuits against dozens of suspect companies.
But Sara’s issues with Texas’ growing Indian community go beyond just fraud.
“All of these people come here illegally or legally, scam our system, drive up home prices, and then s**t on our neighborhoods — like quite literally,” she says.
She points to a story that has gone viral of an Indian man publicly defecating in a Texas neighborhood.
Sara is horrified but not necessarily shocked by the incident.
“Do you think that when they come here, they're going to stop s**tting in the streets? No, of course not,” she says. “They don't respect our country. They are coming here to take.”
“This is not the first time we've had some documentation of an Indian person or an immigrant of some sort who doesn't respect our country, doesn't respect our rules … caught, like, peeing right outside their restaurant that they work at,” she continues.
“You can take the Indian out of India, but can you take the India out of the Indian? Apparently not.”
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If recent indictments got the facts right, American street gangs are forming business relationships with foreign criminal operations.The next AI race isn't about smarter machines. It's about human experience.
If you want to glimpse the future of artificial intelligence, don't start in Silicon Valley. Start in a South Korean factory.
According to the International Federation of Robotics, South Korea now has 1,012 industrial robots for every 10,000 manufacturing workers — the highest robot density in the world. Put another way, roughly one in every 10 manufacturing "workers" is now a robot.
For now, however, even the world's most advanced humanoid robots still struggle with tasks that young children perform effortlessly.
That startling figure is one piece of a much larger story stretching from American AI labs to South Korean factories, Chinese assembly lines, and Indian garment workshops.
For most Americans, the AI revolution is something that happens on a screen. We think of ChatGPT writing emails, Claude summarizing reports, or Google Gemini answering questions. The race appears to revolve around Silicon Valley companies building ever more capable language models.
But the next phase of artificial intelligence is becoming much more physical.
Instead of asking how machines can write like humans, researchers are asking how they can move like humans — how they grasp a coffee mug, fold a shirt, stitch a collar, or crack an egg without crushing it.
That challenge has created an unexpected global division of labor: America builds the brains, South Korea builds the bodies, China provides the classroom, while India supplies the teachers.
Together, they're revealing something surprising: the future of artificial intelligence depends on ordinary human beings.
South Korea: Building the bodies
If robotics has an epicenter, it may well be South Korea.
The country's dominance in robotics didn't emerge from nowhere. It grew out of decades spent building some of the world's most advanced automobiles.
The same expertise that allows South Korean companies to manufacture electric motors, precision steering systems, sensors, braking technology, and other high-performance automotive components translates remarkably well to humanoid robots. Goldman Sachs Research estimates Korean companies could account for roughly 30% of global humanoid robot production by 2035, either by manufacturing robots directly or supplying the critical components that allow them to move.
Yet South Korea's embrace of automation has also exposed its tensions.
This week, Hyundai workers overwhelmingly voted to authorize strike action after contract negotiations stalled, with robots emerging as a central issue for the first time.
The union isn't simply demanding higher wages.
It wants guarantees over how artificial intelligence and humanoid robots will be introduced onto factory floors, arguing that workers deserve a voice before machines begin performing jobs currently done by people.
The dispute centers on Atlas, the humanoid robot developed by Hyundai-owned Boston Dynamics.
While company executives describe Atlas as a way to perform dangerous, repetitive, and physically demanding work, union leaders see a machine that could eventually replace the people who build Hyundai's cars.
The disagreement captures the paradox facing much of the developed world.
Countries like South Korea desperately need automation. It has one of the world's fastest-aging populations and one of its lowest birth rates, creating labor shortages that robots may eventually help fill.
Yet the workers whose jobs are most vulnerable understandably want assurances that they won't become casualties of the technological transition.
Child's play
For now, however, even the world's most advanced humanoid robots still struggle with tasks that young children perform effortlessly.
Finding a coffee pot, identifying its handle, lifting it correctly and pouring without spilling remains astonishingly difficult for a machine.
The bottleneck is no longer the body or the brain. It is experience.
Engineers can now build remarkably capable robot bodies and increasingly sophisticated AI models. What they can't manufacture is the accumulated experience that allows humans to navigate the physical world almost without thinking. Like a child learning to walk — or an apprentice learning a trade — robots improve only through repeated interaction with the real world.
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China: Generating the experience
South Korea may lead the world in robot density, but China wins on sheer scale.
According to the International Federation of Robotics, China had 2.027 million industrial robots operating in its factories in 2024. It installed another 295,000 robots that year alone, accounting for 54% of global robot demand.
That scale gives Beijing an enormous advantage in the next phase of AI.
Unlike ChatGPT, which learned from enormous quantities of text on the internet, humanoid robots must learn by interacting with the real world. Every object they grasp, every obstacle they navigate, and every task they complete generates valuable information that helps improve future models.
China has more of that real-world classroom than anyone else.
Part of the urgency stems from demographics. After decades of the one-child policy and collapsing birth rates, China faces one of the fastest-aging populations in history. Its working-age population is projected to shrink dramatically over the coming decades, threatening the labor force that powered its manufacturing rise.
Humanoid robots have become one response. Every robot deployed today becomes another teacher for tomorrow's robots. More deployment generates more real-world data, and better data produces better AI models.
Better models create more capable robots, which in turn generate even more data.
In the race toward physical AI, experience itself has become a competitive advantage.
India: Supplying the trainers
If South Korea is building the machines and China is putting them to work, India is asking who benefits from the knowledge that makes them possible.
Across the country, companies are asking factory workers, construction laborers, delivery drivers, and homemakers to wear head-mounted cameras while they go about their daily routines.
No gesture is too small to escape the camera's eye: how a garment worker guides fabric through a sewing machine, how a mason carries bricks across uneven ground, how someone folds laundry, washes dishes, packs a lunch.
The recordings — known as "egocentric data" — have become one of the world's most valuable resources.
Many workers reportedly weren't told exactly why they were being recorded; in fact, some laughed when cameras were first strapped to their foreheads. That laughter changed to unease as they realized they were teaching machines that might someday replace them.
Labor advocates have raised new questions. If a worker's lifetime of accumulated skill is converted into an AI dataset worth millions of dollars, should that worker share in its value?
Can consent really be voluntary if refusing to wear the camera could jeopardize someone's livelihood?
And who owns years of accumulated know-how once it has been converted into a commercial AI dataset?
For perhaps the first time, the routines of ordinary life are becoming economically valuable in their own right.
Skills that were never considered professions — sewing a collar, folding towels, washing dishes, preparing meals, gripping an egg without breaking it, carrying heavy materials safely — are becoming indispensable training material for the world's most sophisticated robots.
Indian startup Neocambrian AI estimates it could require 100 million hours of first-person human activity before machines approach human-level dexterity.
The irony is impossible to miss.
As artificial intelligence becomes more sophisticated, researchers are discovering just how difficult it is to replicate the quiet competence of ordinary people.
We, robot
The AI revolution has often been described as a triumph of silicon over flesh. Instead, it is becoming a lesson in just how remarkable ordinary human beings really are.
The machine doesn't know what an ordinary person knows: how tightly to grip an egg, how to instinctively shift its weight while walking across uneven ground.
These are forms of embodied wisdom acquired through years of living in a human body.
Christianity has long insisted that human beings are not merely minds that happen to inhabit bodies. In Genesis, mankind is introduced not simply as a thinker but as a worker — cultivating a garden, naming animals, building a family, and exercising stewardship over creation.
These are not incidental tasks. They are ways human beings express creativity, responsibility, and love.
One of the strangest consequences of the AI revolution is that it is reminding us of the enduring dignity of the same ordinary human work it seeks to replace.
How the H-1B visa replaces American workers
Mary, a veteran Silicon Valley marketer who can’t find a job, considers herself a victim of an H-1B visa program run amok.
Her story, a U.S. native replaced by a foreign-born employee who is willing to work at a significantly lower wage, has become commonplace, particularly in the tech industry. Adding insult to injury, she says, her CEO, who hails from India, told her to train the man he selected to replace her before laying her off.
Despite stints at Google and Cisco and two years of job-hunting, Mary can no longer compete in a job market saturated with foreign-born H-1B visa holders. “I had experience. I should have walked right into these corporate jobs, but I didn't. Why? Because Silicon Valley is flooded with people who work for two-thirds of the price, or even half price,” said Mary, who asked to be identified only by her first name.
Companies, on average, save nearly $100,000 per worker over six years by hiring an H-1B worker rather than an American.
U.S. tech workers like Mary are at the center of a battle brewing in Washington, D.C., over reforming the troubled H-1B visa program, which is designed to fill highly skilled positions when qualified American workers can’t be found. The controversy pits tough-on-immigration Republicans and some Democrats against the most formidable of opponents — Big Tech, the primary beneficiary of a program considered by critics to be little more than a pipeline of cheap labor.
In the last few decades, the California dream has gone global, as U.S. tech firms have filled their ranks and C-suites with employees born abroad. Intel is no longer the company of its founders, Robert Noyce and Gordon Moore, but of Malaysian-born Lip-Bu Tan, its CEO since March 2025. Microsoft is led by Satya Nadella; Alphabet Inc. by Sundar Pichai; Adobe by Shantanu Narayen; IBM by Arvind Krishna; and T-Mobile US by Srinivas Gopalan — all of whom were born in India.
All told, a remarkable two-thirds of the Valley’s nearly 400,000 tech jobs are now held by those born abroad, according to a 2025 report from the think tank Joint Venture Silicon Valley. Today, more tech workers were born in India (23%) and China (18%) combined than in the U.S. (34%).
Low-cost talent
The influx of low-cost Asian talent has clearly helped fuel profits in one of America’s most influential sectors. But there is a downside to this tech boom — the sidelining of U.S. workers thanks to the H-1B visa program. Created in 1990, the federal program has morphed into a vehicle for employers, particularly in the nation’s tech centers, to recruit much cheaper foreign labor at the expense of U.S. tech workers, according to Harvard economist George J. Borjas.
While the H-1B program spans multiple industries, it is overwhelmingly concentrated in tech. Last year, Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, Tata Consultancy, and Google were the biggest visa users, with Amazon alone recording more than 13,000 applications. These companies find the savings from hiring foreign workers hard to resist. The job of software developer, for instance, accounts for 38% of all H-1B visa workers, according to a 2026 paper by Borjas. And these foreign software developers earn about 30% less than their U.S. counterparts, the economist estimates.
Since many of these tech jobs pay six figures, the savings quickly add up. Borjas estimates that companies, on average, save nearly $100,000 per worker over six years by hiring an H-1B worker rather than an American. The arrangement “redistributes wealth from those who compete with immigrants to those who use immigrants,” Borjas wrote in 2016. That, in turn, helps account for the soaring stock prices of Big Tech since the 2008 financial crash.
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False rationale
The vaguely written H-1B law has been easy for companies to exploit. Hassan Abdullah, an immigration attorney and H-1B advocate, said the supposed congressional basis of the law — to fill highly skilled jobs with foreigners if Americans aren’t available — has always been a fiction. “The actual regulations don’t necessarily say that's required,” said Abdullah, who helps companies get the visas. “Throughout all my years, I’ve never had to even consider that as a factor.”
One of the most glaring weaknesses of the law, critics say, is that most companies applying for these visas are not required to demonstrate that they were unable to find qualified American workers. Only companies with more than 15% of their workforce on H-1Bs must make small efforts to recruit U.S. citizens.
Companies are required to pay foreign workers at least the “prevailing wage” for the occupation and region, a provision that should theoretically reduce the incentive to hire employees from Asia. But the process relies on self-reporting and has been easy to manipulate because salaries are calculated using broad regional averages that often fail to reflect real market wages in the technology sector.
As a result, the number of H-1B visa workers has skyrocketed. 2025 was a banner year, with 406,348 approved visas, according to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. Seventy percent of those visas were issued to Indians. That compares with a total of 275,317 visa approvals in 2015.
Missouri Sen. Eric Schmitt, who is part of the MAGA wing of the GOP, reacted to these numbers on X, calling the program “a national security nightmare. Enough. No more flooding the market with 400k+ H-1B visas while our people and our sovereignty gets screwed."
After foreign-born employees take on leadership roles, including CEO, they attract and hire more foreigners by tapping their own professional and social networks.
With criticism of the visas dovetailing with broader anti-immigration sentiments, the Trump administration has made the most serious move yet to restrict the program. Six months ago, USCIS announced a new $100,000 fee that companies must pay per new H-1B worker living outside the U.S. While official figures have not yet been released, some immigration experts estimate that the fee may lead to a 30% to 50% decline in new visa applications.
“This is the first year we have not filed any H-1B visas for people outside the U.S. because tech companies don’t want to pay the $100,000 fee,” said immigration attorney Navdeep Meamber, who is based in Silicon Valley.
But companies have found a work-around. Meamber said she has seen an increase in the number of clients filing for the visas for workers already in the U.S., particularly those such as students who transferred from other visa types to H-1Bs.
“The $100,000 fee is discouraging some employers from bringing in brand-new H-1B workers, but it is not reducing the numbers, because foreign students, especially those who get on the Optional Practical Training program, can move into the H-1B pipeline without paying that fee,” said attorney Rosemary Jenks, a campaigner for immigration reform with the Immigration Accountability Project. “So there are still plenty of H-1B visas being issued every year.”
American ingenuity
Silicon Valley wasn’t always dominated by foreigners. Some claim the true birthplace of Silicon Valley can be found in a garage at 367 Addison Avenue in Palo Alto. It was there that David Packard, a native of Colorado, and Bill Hewlett of Michigan founded Hewlett-Packard in 1939. Robert Noyce, a native son of Iowa and co-inventor of the integrated circuit, critically made from silicon, gave name to the valley after the substance. With his colleague, Gordon Moore of San Francisco, they founded Intel in 1968.
Throughout the postwar years, America’s booming tech industry was largely pioneered by natives. By the 1980s, however, concerns were raised about the dwindling number of young people available to fill STEM jobs in the future. Erich Bloch, director of the National Science Foundation, told the American Council on Education in 1985: “The pool of potential students from U.S. schools will become smaller. Demographic projections, of which you are all aware, show the number of 18- to 24-year-olds declining by about 20% over the next decade.”
The 1990 Immigration Act created the H-1B visa, a temporary work visa lasting a few years aimed at filling the labor shortages Bloch had warned about. Since then, tech firms have sometimes struggled to find employees, particularly specialized engineers, during times of rapid growth. But whether the industry faces a persistent shortage of American workers is a matter of debate among economists and labor analysts.
Major technology companies reject the criticism that the H-1B system is primarily a source of cheap labor. Executives stress that the program allows American firms to recruit engineers and researchers with advanced technical expertise in areas where qualified talent can be scarce.
They also contend that many H-1B workers are paid high salaries and that access to global talent helps keep American companies competitive against rivals.
Critics of the visas point to waves of layoffs accompanied by the growth in H-1Bs as evidence that a labor shortage is nothing more than a fig leaf. Michael Capuano of the Federation for American Immigration Reform wrote in a blog post last year,
Google laid off 951 U.S. employees in 2024, but found room for 1,058 new H-1B workers. Apple laid off 735 people in 2024, but signed on 864 new H-1B employees. Microsoft laid off 3,426 workers from 2022 to 2024 and hired 3,259 new H-1Bs during that same period.
A 2023 analysis by the Economic Policy Institute similarly found that the top 30 H-1B employers hired more than 34,000 new H-1B workers in 2022 while laying off at least 85,000 employees during the same period.
In addition to cheaper talent, critics say H-1B visas also provide a captive workforce. Because employers can sponsor visa holders for permanent residency, many workers become heavily reliant on keeping their jobs in order to remain in the United States. Critics argue that this dynamic discourages employees from changing companies or demanding higher wages, with some likening the system to a form of indentured servitude.
Tribalism at play
Critics say favoritism has also contributed to foreign dominance of the tech sector. After foreign-born employees take on leadership roles, including CEO, they attract and hire more foreigners by tapping their own professional and social networks.
Kevin Lynn, executive director of the Institute for Sound Public Policy, argues that “professionalism doesn’t exist in these IT departments any more,” adding that “when you look at the hiring, it gets very tribal. It’s really India versus the rest of the world.”
Microsoft saw the number of decisions on H-1B applications rise from 2,983 in 2014, when Nadella became CEO, to 6,258 in 2025. Google’s numbers jumped from 2,309 in 2015, when Pichai took the top job, to 7,868 in 2025. During these years, these companies also grew, making it hard to know if the percentage of foreign workers increased. At IBM, H-1B decisions have remained consistent since Arvind Krishna was named the leader.
Meamber, the immigration lawyer, disputes the idea that companies run by foreign-born leaders are more likely to rely on labor from their home countries. “The CEO doesn’t even know who is being hired. ... These decisions are being taken at a lower level by the HR team and by the recruiters,” she said.
Stephen Vivien, an engineer, said he witnessed Indian employees helping each other get hired by sharing interview questions when he worked at Google. “There were a lot of H-1B workers ... there's a network.” he said.
“When one Indian guy would be coming up for his interview; the other Indian guys who had [already] gotten hired would call and share the questions.”
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In April, a New York jury found New Jersey-based Cognizant Technology Solutions liable for $8.4 million after a former executive sued the company, which was founded in India, for discrimination against non-Indian and non-South Asian workers. The executive argued he was passed over for a promotion and was later fired for raising concerns about bias against non-Indian employees.
The decision follows a separate successful lawsuit brought by three other employees against Cognizant in 2017, all similarly claiming discrimination against non-Indian workers, though the company is appealing and denies all allegations. In both lawsuits, juries found in favor of claims that Cognizant had used the H-1B program as a tool to discriminate against American workers. Since 2009, the company has received tens of thousands of H-1B visa approvals.
Reformers vs. Big Tech
While restrictions to the program have yet to meaningfully slow its growth, some Republicans have called to abolish it. In February, Florida Rep. Greg Steube (R) introduced the EXILE Act, which would end the H-1B visa program entirely.
A proposed reform that might gain more bipartisan support targets the ineffective prevailing wage requirement that allows firms to underpay foreign workers. One idea floated by Republicans would create a minimum salary requirement for H-1B workers that is much higher than the current pay scale, thus removing the financial incentive to replace U.S.-born workers.
Ro Khanna, the Democrat congressman representing much of Silicon Valley, said on the "All-In" podcast last year that “there’s definitely abuse. ... It needs to be corrected” in the H-1B program. Khanna said a new prevailing wage standard would be a reform he could support.
But legislation that would raise labor costs would be opposed by Big Tech, armed with its war chest of money and influence in Washington. Jenks, the lawyer, said H-1B reformers face a tough fight. “The donors on this issue include all of the high-tech companies, whether it’s Microsoft, Facebook, all of them,” she said. “They put millions and millions of dollars every year into lobbying.”
Editor’s note: This article was originally published by RealClearInvestigations and made available via RealClearWire. The article was reported in conjunction with a GB News documentary, which can be viewed here.
‘The Indian media is going crazy’: Sara Gonzales calls out its obsession with her H-1B investigations
As BlazeTV’s Sara Gonzales continues her investigations into H-1B fraud in the state of Texas, the Indian media is growing more angsty.
“The Indian media is going crazy over my latest H-1B video,” says Sara, referring to her recent exposé in Frisco/Plano, where she confronted Great America Technologies’ owner Nagarjuna Reddy Sakam over suspected fraud.
Even though Sara’s H-1B investigations have sparked significant legal action from the state — including Attorney General Ken Paxton’s investigations, CIDs, and lawsuits against nearly 30 North Texas businesses, plus Gov. Greg Abbott’s freeze on new H-1B petitions by state agencies and universities — the Indian media continues to frame the Indian community as the victims.
“The Indian media is working overtime to try to discredit what I show in my videos,” says Sara.
She points out the irony of Indian media outlets trying to invalidate her investigations using an obscure report by a self-proclaimed entrepreneur who goes by the name James Blunt (@JBlunt1018), who apparently claimed that he “looked into the company and found nothing wrong.”
Given his strongly pro-Indian immigrant stance and an X profile picture that appears to be AI-generated, Sara strongly suspects that Blunt is “some sort of an Indian national.”
She then plays a clip from Times XP, a video news platform from the Times of India, where a news anchor claimed that America’s “social media activism,” “immigration politics,” and Sara’s “online investigation” are creating a “dangerous coalition” that might hurt Indian immigration efforts.
“This story is no longer just about H1B visas or the companies in Texas. It is becoming a part of much larger battle over immigration identity and who gets to define the American workforce in the years ahead,” the anchor said.
“I got a big problem with people in India trying to dictate to America what our workforce looks like or should look like,” says Sara in response.
She notes that according to “credible sources,” she is now being “monitored by the Indian government.”
But Sara isn’t phased.
“I'm not going to stop. We're going to keep going until all your buddies get sent home,” she declares.
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That customer service rep with the American accent might still be an Indian guy — here's how
That hard-to-understand accent on the other side of the phone might be a thing of the past.
In some cases, one might be talking to a stateside representative, but in other cases, it could very well be an Indian who is having his or her voice disguised using artificial intelligence.
'A solution to reduce accent bias.'
A collaboration between French company Teleperformance — the largest call-center operator in the world — and American AI company Sanas is admittedly manipulating Indian accents in real time to sound more like American or British customer service agents.
"When you have an Indian agent on the line, sometimes it's hard to hear, to understand," said Teleperformance Deputy CEO Thomas Mackenbrock.
According to the Japan Times, the CEO said his company can "neutralize the accent of the Indian speaker with zero latency" in order to create "more intimacy" with the caller.
The sneaky switch "increases the customer satisfaction and reduces the average handling time," Mackenbrock claimed, calling it "a win-win for both parties."
It is unclear exactly which U.S. companies are using Sanas' technology through Teleperformance, but the possibilities are massive. Currently, Teleperformance provides outsourced customer support and content moderation for Apple, TikTok, and Samsung Electronics.
In Canada, telecommunications company Telus is already implementing Sanas' software.
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Telus is using services from Tomato.ai, a company acquired by Sanas in April. Tomato.ai uses its technology to "modify acoustic features of speech" while preserving the speaker's voice, the Globe & Mail reported.
This reduces "accent-related friction" and addresses any mispronunciations, it is claimed.
Sanas' co-founder told TechCrunch last year that the technology should "enhance" human connection rather than "replace" it.
"With the number of customer interactions continuing to scale globally, the need for human-to-human communication remains critical," said Sharath Keshava Narayana.
Co-founders Maxim Serebryakov, Shawn Zhang, and Andrés Soderi came up with the company after allegedly being inspired by a fellow student's experience as a customer service agent people couldn't understand. The story was described through a progressive lens, however, with Narayana saying the customers' inability to understand the friend was "accent discrimination."
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"Max and Shawn's friend, Raul, who had to return to Nicaragua to support his family, faced accent discrimination at his call center job,” Narayana claimed. "His experience with 'accent neutralization training' and the toll it took on him inspired Max and Shawn to build a solution to reduce accent bias."
The Sun reported that companies Vodafone and eBay work with Teleperformance in the U.K. and so do portions of the government, including health services.
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Anti-Trump Indian investor wants you to use this hat that reads your thoughts
An American company is pushing science fiction to its limits by introducing a mind-reading product, backed by a controversial investor from India.
The product falls under the new category called brain-computer interface technology, with the investor saying he sees his product as the best path to push people into using the brain-tapping gadgets.
'Securely and wirelessly, understands your thoughts and what you attempt to speak.'
The Silicon Valley startup is backed by venture capitalist Vinod Khosla, an AI and software investor from Bombay State, India. The new company is called Sabi, and it is developing the Sabi Cap, a beanie that reads the wearer's thoughts and puts them into text on a connected device.
In remarks to Wired, Khosla said that a noninvasive wearable device was the only way to get a lot of people to use the BCI technology.
"The biggest and baddest application of BCI is if you can talk to your computer by thinking about it," Khosla explained. "If you're going to have a billion people use BCI for access to their computers every day, it can't be invasive."
The technology works by using metal disks placed on the wearer's scalp that can record their brain's electrical activity through a technology called electroencephalography. The process is called decoding "imagined speech."
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Given that the sensors on the beanie (or a planned baseball cap product) would have to work through hair, skin, and bone, the company plans on increasing the amount of sensors to piece together the required data; 70,000 to 100,000 miniature sensors per beanie have been suggested.
"Given that high-density sensing, it pinpoints exactly what and where neural activity is happening. We use that information to get much more reliable data to decode what a person is thinking," said CEO Rahul Chhabra.
Sabi's website describes the "brain reading" process as starting with "brain imaging" with "neuroimaging sensors."
The company notes that it collects "a lot of brain imaging data" and maps signals into thoughts.
"Securely and wirelessly, understands your thoughts and what you attempt to speak," the website boasts, touting how one could connect his or her brain to AI.
"AI agents do whatever you can think of. Literally."
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Investor Khosla has been vocally opposed to President Trump on his X page while having a public feud with Elon Musk, who is in the same field with his product Neuralink.
Khosla claimed that Musk wanted to make "white America great again" while saying Musk finds racism "desirable."
This was in response to Musk stating that white people are a diminishing population.
"Vinod, you're not just such a pompous asshole that you tried to stop the public from using a public beach near your house, you've also gone full retard," Musk replied.
At the same time, entrepreneur Palmer Luckey mocked Khosla for saying that "decent whites should quit" Tesla and SpaceX and join his own company.
Khosla has also called Trump "not fit to be President" and advocated against his anti-DEI positions by championing a "dire US need" to bring in international students.
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