OP-ED: Cognizant Crackdown
Commentary - Thursday, October 1, 2026
By Chris Chmielenski, President
An IT company hires tens of thousands of foreign workers and then farms them out to leading tech firms in the United States who claim they need IT help, while these same firms lay off tens of thousands of American workers. It’s a problem that’s become a common practice in the tech industry. The Trump administration is cracking down on one company, Cognizant, and demolishing the lie sold to the American public by tech executives and elected officials that there’s a critical shortage of skilled domestic labor. In reality, the government, under heavy influence from the tech industry, has built an elaborate pipeline that funnels cheap foreign workers into otherwise high-paying tech jobs. It’s a system that involves wage suppression and visa abuse meant to shut the door on American graduates and experienced professionals while building a cheap and compliant workforce centered around the H-1B visa system.
Read the full op-ed at Commonplace.
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