Why is Trump’s Justice Department carrying water for Obama’s visa scam?
Donald Trump’s base has reached a clear conclusion: The entire importation of white-collar workers from India was a scam. It replaced American workers, fueled outsourcing to India, and boosted its economy at the expense of our own.
The labor market is so weak that even legal visa programs should be suspended under Trump’s 212(f) authority. Yet the H-1B and L visa pipelines remain open, and worse, the Trump Justice Department is defending one of Obama’s most lawless expansions: the H-4 spousal work program.
Defending Obama’s H-4 visa scheme undermines both the law and the American workforce.
Save Jobs USA, representing American workers, has sued the government for continuing Obama’s program that grants work permits to H-1B spouses on H-4 visas. Congress authorized the H-4 visa, but it never authorized work permits. Obama simply created them in 2015 by executive fiat.
Because the program is untethered from statutory limits, it has no cap. While the U.S. still issues around 120,000 H-1B visas each year — including under Trump — hundreds of thousands of spouses now work illegally in the same industries, displacing Americans. Most are funneled into the tech sector, overwhelmingly from India.
This lawsuit has been winding through the courts for nearly a decade. It began after Southern California Edison fired American workers and replaced them with H-1B visa holders. Both district and appellate courts in D.C. sided with the government. Now, as the case reaches the Supreme Court, Trump’s Justice Department filed a brief — signed off by Pam Bondi — arguing that plaintiffs lack standing to sue.
“Petitioner did not identify a single member who is ‘suffering immediate or threatened injury’ that is fairly traceable to the 2015 rule,” government lawyers wrote last month.
Even if one debates the technicalities of standing, why would Bondi waste resources defending a program that is plainly illegal and harmful to American workers — the opposite of what Trump promised in 2015?
A broader failure on foreign labor
Seven months into the new administration, the broader picture looks grim. The White House has failed to slow worker visa programs outside of narrow national security concerns. Trump has not invoked his 212(f) authority to halt needless foreign labor. Instead, he has floated the idea of importing 600,000 Chinese students — an economic and national security risk rolled into one.
This is the worst possible time to flood the market with foreign workers. The economy has averaged just 35,000 new jobs a month, the weakest pace since the Great Recession. Entry-level job listings are down 15% while applications are up 30%. The class of 2024 is still struggling: 41% underemployed, 58% still searching.
Tech companies, meanwhile, continue layoffs by the tens of thousands this year even as they lobby for more H-1Bs:
- Intel: 21,000
- Panasonic: 10,000
- Meta: 3,600
- Hewlett-Packard: 2,000
- Hewlett Packard Enterprise: 2,500
- IBM: 8,000
- PayPal: 2,500
- Dell: 12,500
- TCS: 12,000
Why would they seek more visas in the middle of layoffs? Because nearly half of H-1Bs go to outsourcing and staffing firms, which feed India’s tech industry while hollowing out our own. Each expansion of the visa pipeline means more outsourcing, not more prosperity for Americans.
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The corporate capture
The deeper problem is the growing partnership between this administration and multinational tech giants. The government even owns a 10% equity stake in Intel. Palantir, which holds sensitive defense and health databases, has been allowed to staff up with foreign workers who now handle American taxpayers’ critical data.
Against this backdrop, Bondi’s defense of Obama’s illegal spousal work program looks less like a legal technicality and more like a political signal: This administration is drifting from Trump’s 2015 America First promises and closer to the “America Last” priorities of multinational corporations.
Back to 2015’s warning
The case against foreign workers is even stronger now than when Trump rode down that golden escalator a decade ago. The economy is weaker, the job market tighter, and the outsourcing racket more blatant. Defending Obama’s H-4 visa scheme undermines both the law and the American workforce.
The administration needs to remember what brought Trump to power in the first place. Stop importing foreign labor. Shut down lawless programs. Put American workers first.
Trump just called for this CEO to resign over alleged ties to China
President Trump and Senator Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) are sounding the alarm over a Fortune 500 company and its CEO.
The president made a post on his Truth Social platform, just a day after Senator Cotton sent a letter to the company's chairman citing worries about possible impacts on U.S. national security.
'There is no other solution to this problem.'
Cotton sent a letter to Intel Chairman Frank D. Yeary, telling him that he is concerned with the "security and integrity of Intel's operations" and the "potential impact on U.S. national security" in relation to the company's new CEO.
"The new CEO of [Intel] reportedly has deep ties to the Chinese Communists," Cotton wrote on X.
CEO Lip-Bu Tan was the recent CEO of Cadence Design Systems (2009-2021), a company that makes electronic design automation technology, Cotton pointed out. He added, "Cadence pleaded guilty to illegally selling its products to a Chinese military university and transferring its technology to an associated Chinese semiconductor company without obtaining licenses."
The Republican senator followed that up with a letter to Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, asking him to rescind the ability of non-U.S. citizens to have access to Department of Defense systems.
On Thursday morning, the president was much more direct about what he wanted from the Intel CEO.
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"The CEO of INTEL is highly CONFLICTED and must resign, immediately," Trump said on Truth Social. "There is no other solution to this problem. Thank you for your attention to this problem!"
According to the New York Post, Cotton's letter revealed that Tan had invested at least $200 million across hundreds of Chinese firms between 2012 and 2024. The senator additionally asked if Tan had disclosed any remaining investments he had of a similar nature, due to the fact that Intel receives significant federal funding.
Cotton was referring to Intel being awarded $8.5 billion through President Biden's CHIPS and Science Act in 2024, along with about $11 billion in government loans. Intel brought Tan aboard only a few months ago, in March, replacing former CEO Pat Gelsinger, whom Intel's board reportedly lost faith in.
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An Intel spokesperson told the Post that "Intel and Mr. Tan are deeply committed to the national security of the United States and the integrity of our role in the U.S. defense ecosystem."
The company said it planned to address matters with Cotton, while the senator stated in his letter that he wants a response by August 15.
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State Department docs indicate closing of Obama's Global Engagement Center may have been sleight of hand: Report
The Global Engagement Center, a multi-agency entity housed within the U.S. State Department that was credibly accused of working with organizations both at home and abroad to silence conservative voices, supposedly died last week. House Appropriations Chair Tom Cole (R-Okla.) was unable to get his one-year extension of the center into the continuing resolution that was ultimately passed on Dec. 20.
It appears, however, that the censorious practices undertaken by the agency established by Barack Obama in 2011 might ultimately live on in another form and under a new name.
Documents recently obtained by the Washington Examiner and reviewed by senior Republican staffers have reportedly exposed the State Department's intention to "realign" over 50 GEC officials and divert tens of millions of dollars in funding to what appears to effectively be the same controversial agency by another name, this time the Counter Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference Hub.
This would not be the first time the agency — deemed the "worst offender in U.S. government censorship & media manipulation" by Elon Musk in the wake of the Twitter Files, found to be internally dysfunctional in a 2022 State Department Office of Inspector General report, and defended ardently by Sens. Christopher Murphy (D-Conn.), Jack Reed (D-R.I.), Roger Wicker (R-Miss.), and John Cornyn (R-Texas) — underwent a name change. When first established by a 2011 Obama executive order, the agency was called the Center for Strategic Counterterrorism Communications.
Weeks ahead of the GEC's closure, the State Department reportedly noted in a Dec. 6, 2024, non-public letter to members of Congress, "Should the authority for the GEC not be extended, the department plans to realign 51 employees and associated funding from the GEC to a proposed Counter Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference (R/FIMI) Hub reporting to the Undersecretary for Public Diplomacy (R)."
The associated funds funneled into this hub would reportedly total $29.4 million.
According to the documents obtained by the Examiner, the remaining GEC staffers and funds would be assigned to the Bureaus of African Affairs, East Asian and Pacific Affairs, European and Eurasian Affairs, and other offices at the State Department.
"The Department of State intends to realign $18.2 million in DP Public Diplomacy funding (of which $15.0 million is bureau-managed and $3.2 million is American Salaries) to eight bureaus and one office that will receive U.S. Direct Hire or third-party contract staff from GEC as part of the realignment," said the documents.
A senior Republican aide told the Examiner, "Donald Trump and Marco Rubio are going to have to track every single office, down to every single staffer, if they want to end the weaponization of the federal government against conservatives."
"The State Department is filled with Resistance Democrats who think they got through the first Trump administration and will get through the second the same way," added the aide.
While the GEC may survive in spirit, a source familiar with the matter told the Examiner's Gabe Kaminsky that the proposed hub would not have the grant-making power the agency previously enjoyed.
After it was codified into law in the 2017 National Defense Authorization Act, the GEC was equipped with both grant-making authority and the ability to "build a decentralized network of private sector actors and allow the integration of capabilities and expertise available outside the U.S. government into the strategy-making process."
'The GEC — a government center antithetical to a free press.'
In the lawsuit filed December 2023 by Texas, the Daily Wire, and the Federalist in hopes of halting "one of the most egregious government operations to censor the American press in the history of the nation," the plaintiffs alleged that the GEC backed at a minimum two American censorship enterprises: the Disinformation Index Inc., the American component of the British think tank Global Disinformation Index, and NewsGuard Technologies.
Blaze News previously reported that both organizations produced blacklists of supposedly risky or misleading news outfits with the objective of getting them demonetized and directing funds to news organizations that regurgitate approved narratives.
Whereas the Washington Post, HuffPost, and other liberal news pages were categorized as the "least risky sites" in the GDI's fall 2022 report, Blaze News, Reason, the Federalist, the Daily Wire, the New York Post, and other conservative publications made the top-10 list of "riskiest sites" and were smeared as having the "greatest level of disinformation risk."
The Examiner revealed last year that the GDI had pocketed hundreds of thousands of dollars in grant money from the GEC in 2021 and 2022.
"It's an incubator for the domestic disinformation complex," a former intelligence source previously told investigative reporter Matt Taibbi. "All the s*** we pulled in other countries since the Cold War, some morons decided to bring home."
In addition to the apparent survival of the GEC in the form of the proposed hub, senior GEC officials have migrated to the wings of senior officials in the State Department. For instance, James Rubin, former special envoy and coordinator at the GEC, is now reportedly a senior adviser to Secretary of State Antony Blinken, and the agency's former acting coordinator, Leah Bray, is now chief of staff to Deputy Secretary of State Kurt Campbell.
The State Department did not provide the Examiner with comment on its congressional notification. However, a State Department spokesman made clear to Politico in October that Blinken was committed to "preserving the GEC's critical work."
"No matter what, combatting foreign information manipulation overseas will continue as a critical part of the Department's mission," said the spokesman.
"It is heartening to see Congress has refused to continue funding the GEC — a government center antithetical to a free press," Margot Cleveland, an attorney with the New Civil Liberties Alliance involved in Texas' lawsuit against the State Department and GEC, said in a statement Thursday. "NCLA remains concerned, however, that the State Department has 'realigned' GEC personnel and funds to other areas of the State Department and to date has refused to even provide a copy of the notice of the realignment the agency shared with Congress nearly a month ago."
While the suit has been stayed until Feb. 18, the NCLA indicated that it is "continuing to review and obtain discovery aimed at exposing the true depth of the government's egregious censorship regime."
The GEC was also named in a new civil lawsuit filed Monday by the Functional Government Initiative. According to the complaint obtained by Reclaim the Net, the GEC failed to comply with records requests that could have provided "increased transparency and allow[ed] the public to see if and how State Department officials were collaborating [with] or discussing EU censorship."
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Tulsi Gabbard has national security 'experts' worried: 'DNI has access to every single secret'
There is a pattern developing with regard to President-elect Donald Trump's recent nominations: He announces someone apparently well suited to executing the agenda he successfully campaigned on; those with vested interests in the status quo panic; and establishmentarians viciously attack the nominees, pleading with nominal Republicans in the U.S. Senate to prevent their confirmation.
This pattern has been repeated for multiple picks, including former Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz, Pete Hegseth, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), and Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Although virtually all of Trump's nominations have ruffled feathers, his choice of Lt. Col. Tulsi Gabbard to serve as the director of national intelligence appears to have inspired a special kind of unease among Democratic lawmakers, the liberal media, and elements of the intelligence community.
The media
The Atlantic's Tom Nichols rushed to characterize Gabbard's nomination as a "national security risk," complaining that she previously suggested NATO might have had something to do with Russia's invasion of Ukraine and that Syria did not pose a direct threat to the United States.
"Gabbard is a classic case of 'horseshoe' politics," Nichols warned. "Her views can seem both extremely left and extremely right, which is probably why people such as Tucker Carlson — a conservative who has turned into … whatever pro-Russia right-wingers are called now — have taken a liking to the former Democrat (who was previously a Republican and is now again a member of the GOP)."
The Washington Examiner's Tom Rogan suggested that by nominating Gabbard, Trump — who was kneecapped in his first term by a malignant counterintelligence investigation and whose 2020 political adversary was given narrative cover prior to the election by CIA contractors and intelligence community alumni — "is putting his distrust of the intelligence community before the critical interests of national security."
After trotting out the Syria and Russia-themed attacks against Gabbard, then insinuating that she is a sympathizer with the communist Chinese regime, Rogan warned that if confirmed, she would supervise "all U.S. intelligence agencies' collection, analysis, and mission efforts and the production and dissemination of the U.S. government's most sensitive intelligence reporting and analysis. This includes knowledge of spies buried deep inside foreign governments and terrorist organizations."
'This appointment is sending shock waves here in the United States.'
Bill Kristol quoted Jonathan Last, editor of the neocon blog the Bulwark, as writing, "Making Gabbard DNI simply makes no sense. ... Or rather, it makes no sense for America. For Russia, DNI Gabbard makes all the sense in the world."
Last appeared particularly upset over Gabbard's opposition to fruitless foreign entanglements and ineffectual U.S. sanctions.
Dems and spooks spooked
"This appointment is sending shock waves here in the United States but also around the globe," John Brennan, former director of the CIA and chief counterterrorism adviser to former President Barack Obama, said in conversation with MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace.
Brennan, one of the signatories of the infamous Hunter Biden "intel" letter, likened the 18 intelligence agencies that Gabbard would oversee to an orchestra, suggesting that she likely doesn't even know what instruments are being played.
Former Bush adviser John Bolton, a key proponent of America's disastrous 2003 invasion of Iraq, suggested to NewsNation's "The Hill" that with Trump's "announcement of Tulsi Gabbard to be the director of national intelligence, he's sending a signal that we have lost our mind when it comes to collecting intelligence."
One former senior intelligence official who spoke under the condition of anonymity told Politico that the choice was a "left turn and off the bridge."
Another intelligence official warned that America's allies, including Israel, might withhold information from Washington if Gabbard were the DNI, adding, "What some allies share may now be shaped by political goals rather than professional intelligence sharing."
An unnamed "Western security source" similarly suggested to Reuters that Britain, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand may be less forthcoming about the intelligence they collect, stressing that foreign nations believe Trump's appointments all lean in the "wrong direction."
Democratic Rep. Abigail Spanberger (Va.), a former CIA officer who now warms a chair on the House Intelligence Committee, suggested on X that Gabbard, who served in Iraq and Kuwait, would be an oath-breaker.
"The men and women of the U.S. Intelligence community honor their oaths by collecting the vital intelligence that keeps our fellow Americans safe. The global threats we face require a Director of National Intelligence who would do the same. Tulsi Gabbard is not that person," wrote Spanberger.
The former spook, echoing Nichols, appears to have unwittingly highlighted what has the establishment panicking, telling The Hill, "The DNI has access to every single secret that the United States has, every single bit of information that we know. … It's the keys to the intelligence community kingdom."
Larry Pfeiffer, former chief of staff at the CIA under the Bush administration, told The Hill, "Some of the statements she has made through the years that sound like they came right out of the Kremlin's talking points paper are a little bit alarming. Her cozying up to Bashar al-Assad and being an apologist for him as well just raise questions in my mind. Is that really the best person to put in charge of this very complicated, very sensitive operation that is the U.S. intel community?"
Jamil Jaffer, a former House Intelligence Committee staffer and national security prosecutor, told The Hill, "What is unusual here is you've got somebody who's had such a long and vociferous track record of saying things that are factually incorrect, that seem to give aid and comfort to U.S. adversaries and that undermine the very people they should be representing at the principals committee."
As with Hegseth and Gaetz's critics, those denouncing Gabbard appear to be exponents of the very worldview and policy conventions that Trump was effectively elected to obliterate.
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Bob Woodward Is The Deep State’s Favorite Conduit For Disinformation
Woodward's new book is just his most recent attempt to hoodwink the public on behalf of our intelligence agencies.Stock market CRASH: What does Warren Buffett know that we don't??
Americans woke up on Monday morning to a stock market plunge after a bad day on Friday. The Dow plummeted hundreds of points, Warren Buffett is selling stocks like crazy, and to top it all off, Japan’s stock market had its worst day since 1987’s Black Monday.
Glenn Beck is understandably worried.
“Friday, we had a bad jobs report. We’re still not in a recession; indicators are showing that we’re headed towards one, but the indicators have been wrong before. We are headed towards one; we’re headed for a depression at some point,” Glenn Beck warns.
Glenn is concerned about what this might mean for ordinary Americans and the United States economy and consults financial expert Carol Roth for some advice.
Roth explains that while the Fed did not lower rates, it might be on the table in September.
“Normally, you would say, ‘Okay, the market wants the Fed to cut rates,’ but what happened is then we got a weak job report on Friday, and while sometimes the bad news can be good news for the market, in this case, they took it as bad news,” Roth tells Glenn.
“The Fed was behind the curve in terms of lowering rates,” Roth continues. “They felt like maybe this whole idea of a quote ‘soft landing,’ the idea that you can get the inflation down without wrecking the economy, is off the table.”
However, while it doesn’t look good, Roth says that “if there is any silver lining here,” it’s that the market did not open back up and continue to fall.
But there are still major indicators that something strange is going on, and one of them is Warren Buffett’s recent behavior.
“Another catalyst that we’ve seen is Warren Buffett,” Roth says. “He had lessened his position in Apple by about 49%.”
“That’s not lessening. That’s cutting it in half,” Glenn says. “He’s making some of the biggest sales he’s ever made. It’s almost as if he’s becoming bullish on America. What does he know that we don’t know?”
“Starting in 2019, he doubled down on Japan. So he has five really big companies and really big positions in Japan. So the day that we’re talking about Japan going down and at the same time the U.S. is going down,” Roth says. “It is interesting.”
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Secret Service scandal: MORE shocking security failures exposed by expert
In less than a week, analysis of the near-assassination of Donald Trump has exposed a number of failures on the part of the Secret Service team that was assigned to secure the rally and protect the former president from danger.
Glenn Beck’s head researcher and writer Jason Buttrill, who’s also a former Department of Defense intelligence analyst and one who’s “[worked] side by side with the Secret Service,” sheds light on the glaring holes in the failed protective operation.
Secret Service SCANDAL: Shocking Security Failures EXPOSED by Expertyoutu.be
“It should be almost impossible to pull off what happened on Saturday,” Jason tells Glenn.
Per standard protocol, “Secret Service [goes] out weeks in advance” in order to “set up a multi-tiered security plan.” Part of that plan involves fully vetting the first three tiers of people in front of where the protectee stands.
“They also identify further out threats,” says Jason. “They identify ... potential sniper positions going all the way to a thousand yards.”
Thomas Matthew Crooks fired, however, from “130 yards” out – a position Jason assures “would have been identified” prior to the rally.
Further, for each potential sniper position, “They would have local law enforcement guarding those areas to make sure no one would gain access.”
“There’s multiple questions here that need to be asked,” says Jason.
“Knowing this entire complex plan, did the Secret Service designate those sniper positions?”
Assuming they did secure potential sniper positions, “Did law enforcement adequately man those positions?”
To that question, Jason says, “It does not appear so on the videos that we've seen,” adding that it was “tailgaters” who spotted the shooter and informed law enforcement of his whereabouts.
Glenn then brings up the fact that the Secret Service team in charge at the Butler, Pennsylvania, rally has repeatedly stated that the roof from where the shooter fired “wasn't part of the secure perimeter.”
“To say as an excuse that it was outside the secured perimeter is absolutely ridiculous,” says Jason, adding that he’s personally witnessed the extreme lengths Secret Service will go to to ensure protection.
But there’s one more question that begs answering — a question Jason says is “the scariest.”
“Was there help given to the shooter?”
Jason isn’t the first to ask this question. Dallas Alexander, the world record holder for the longest confirmed sniper kill, has actually openly stated his belief that this was an “inside job.”
“Do you believe that is a realistic possibility?” Glenn asks Jason.
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To hear Jason’s answer, watch the clip above.
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