No Job is Safe from the Race to Bottom Bid

Establishment elites tell us often we need immigration because of labor shortages and “jobs Americans won’t do.” The list of jobs Americans won’t do now includes tech jobs despite many going into debt to “learn to code.” The New York Times has published an exceptionally depressing article with the headline, “Goodbye, $165,000 Tech Jobs. Student Coders Seek Work at Chipotle.” The story chronicles college graduates who were promised high-paying jobs if they “learned to code,” only to discover Americans need not apply. The media is unwilling to face the reality of foreign labor dumping so instead they place the blame on the rise of Artificial Intelligence (AI). The Times does not mention outsourcing or foreign labor dumping at all. And yet still they help provide further clear evidence that the labor market for American graduates is atrocious, while tech companies are still seeking H-1B foreign workers along with Optional Practical Training (OPT) workers and a smorgasbord of other visa workers (B, L, O, TN). Given the impoverishment of American graduates (many with mountains of student loan debt), it is ever more clear that we must prioritize Americans in the hiring of the few jobs remaining. 

President Trump has the authority under 8 U.S.C. 1182(f) to bar entry for aliens who would be detrimental to the United States. All he needs to do is read a few recent media articles to find all the evidence to support barring foreign labor dumping. 

A Fortune article in July 2025 had this headline: “Gen Z men with college degrees now have the same unemployment rate as non-grads—a sign that the higher education payoff is dead.” These Gen Z men with college degrees have the same unemployment rate, but they have it worse than their cohorts when you consider student loan debt. 

From the Times article cited above:

“In response to questions from The New York Times, more than 150 college students and recent graduates — from state schools including the universities of Maryland, Texas and Washington, as well as private universities like Cornell and Stanford — shared their experiences. Some said they had applied to hundreds, and in several cases thousands, of tech jobs at companies, nonprofits and government agencies….

Since graduating in 2023, however, Mr. Taylor said, he has applied for 5,762 tech jobs. His diligence has resulted in 13 job interviews but no full-time job offers.

The electronics firm where he had a software engineering internship last year was not able to hire him, he said. This year, he applied for a job at McDonald’s to help cover expenses, but he was rejected “for lack of experience,” he said. He has since moved back home to Sherwood, Ore., and is receiving unemployment benefits.”

Both Bloomberg and ProPublica published stories this summer explaining the scam at the center of the current tech labor market. They chronicle how H-1B staffing agencies provide foreign workers at discounts of tens of thousands of dollars to major companies like Citi and Capital One, and how tech companies purposefully hide job listings from Americans and refuse to hire the Americans who apply so they can sponsor foreign workers.

And don’t forget that the tech sector had mass layoffs over the past five years. In April of 2023 the tech sector had already laid off over 100,000 workers in just four months. While this was occurring, the tech industry was breaking records for H-1B visa petitions. 

Establishment elites warn about labor shortages all the time. In June 2025, a new report was issued by a group called “Unleashing Prosperity,” rehashing the same old nonsense, celebrating the replacement of American workers. These elites insist that immigration creates more jobs than it takes or that there are so few Americans able and/or willing to work that immigrants simply fill roles that would otherwise go unfilled. However, story after story shows Americans are applying for thousands of jobs in their chosen field without any luck. Americans are not lazy or unskilled; they just can’t compete with the cheaper foreign workers to whom employers are addicted. 

And this was going on long before AI’s rise to prominence. Tech workers have been forced to train their replacements and been discriminated against in the hiring process for decades. There is no doubt that AI is an existential threat to American tech workers, but the historical record is clear. If AI were eroding demand for human workers completely, then we would see an equivalent drop in demand for imported foreign labor as we see for Americans. 

Instead, as with Microsoft recently, we see thousands laid off while simultaneously thousands of foreign workers are sought. AI, like many technological innovations before it, will transform the labor market and shrink available jobs. However, the real question is who should be prioritized for the remaining jobs? Currently, the immigration system allows companies to hire cheap foreign labor for the jobs AI hasn’t replaced. The American immigration system is being used to replace American workers. An entire generation of young Americans is being shut out of the labor market entirely, and I cannot imagine a more detrimental outcome to the long-term prosperity of the country. 

Congress gave the President the power to stop detrimental immigration for times such as these. President Trump needs to ban foreign labor dumping with 1182(f) if he wants his Golden Age to include American citizens.