Trump Administration sued over H1B fee - FAIR's Hannah Davis is live

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hannah Davis joining US now from the Federation for American
Immigration Reform and more on what's happening inside our country
right now is the US Chamber of Commerce has filed
a lawsuit against the Trump administration over the new one
hundred thousand dollars fee on each H one BE visa
petition Hannah, welcome in, Thanks for being.

Speaker 2 (00:17):
Here, Thanks for having me.

Speaker 1 (00:18):
I gotta think that, Yeah, the President is doing something
here to really protect you know, American workers and companies
not hiring outside of the parameters of who ought to
be getting these jobs here? And what's the US Chamber
of Commerce jumping in here with his lawsuit all about?

Speaker 2 (00:33):
Yeah, to take it back a little bit, An H
one B visa is a visa typically for high skilled
individuals that go into the tech industry, and you know,
those are jobs that American people can can do. We
don't have to import foreign labor. And because of how
much companies have been relying on these individuals, the Trump
administration decided to impose a one hundred thousand dollars fee.

(00:54):
So if you're hiring them, or you want to be hired,
one of you is going to have to pay that
fee and it's already the effect already being felt. I mean,
Walmart in America, they hire they're in the top ten
of companies who hire H one B visa holders rather
than Americans with these high skilled skills and and and
they're already stopping. They're they're not hiring anybody that they

(01:14):
have to pay one hundred thousand and four, you know,
So no more H one B visa holders. And it's really,
I think a good thing. But the US Chamber of
Commerce thinks, you know, Trump, the Trump administration has circumnavigated
Congress and that this is something that needs to be
done congressionally. So it'll be interesting to see how that
lawsuit plays out. But we've got a lot of skilled
US graduates that can't find jobs. I think this is

(01:37):
a good thing for people like that that have, you know,
a doctor's degrees and masters that haven't been able to
find jobs. So I think at the end of the day,
this is better for the American worker.

Speaker 1 (01:46):
One hundred percent agree. We need to be hiring Americans
for these jobs, no doubt about it. But let's follow
the money here. I would imagine companies like Walmart and
these others that are in the top ten here, uh,
and the US Chamber of Commerce. Obviously they're they're in
bed together. They're in the same little world here, and
they're trying to protect their money in the US Chamber Commerces,

(02:06):
you know, and today that is being run by let's
call it big businesses and corporations, and although it's a
government agency, a lot of influence coming in from the
outside corporations into the US Chamber of Commerce.

Speaker 2 (02:19):
That's exactly right. I mean, they love this imported labor
because it undercuts wages sure and replaces qualified US employees
that you would have to pay a livable wage, and
so it is an interesting phenomenon that they would rather,
you know, almost derelict the American worker and kind of
abuse heb VISal holders at the same time, because like

(02:41):
I said, these people are also high skilled. They just
happen to be foreign that they come over here and
they get underpaid, and so it's kind of it's abusive
on both sides of the coin. So, like I said,
it'll be interesting to see how it plays out.

Speaker 1 (02:51):
Yeah, I agree, one hundred percent. Get lost Chamber Commerce
all right. Los Angeles County now officials voting four to
one to declare a state of emergency over the federal
immigration enforcement operations. I guess it's crazy. So we're bringing
in troops to assist in cities that are out of
control when it comes to crime. And secondly, on the

(03:13):
other side of this, same operations kind of taking place
to protect our ICE agents from doing their job, or
not from doing their job, but from being attacked while
doing their job. And now La County is saying, well,
this is a state of an emergency here. We've got
problems here with the law enforcement coming in here. Wow,

(03:34):
this is so backwards.

Speaker 2 (03:35):
Yeah, that's exactly right. I mean La County, LA as
a whole, they've seen a lot of ICE operations, a
lot of raids, a lot of protests. No Kings Day
protests tie in with that, and because of that, a
lot of people aren't going to work, you know, or
they've been deported and rightfully so, or they've been arrested
for partaking in certain dangerous activities during these raids and whatnot.

(03:57):
And so what the county decided to do was to
declare a state of emergency. And under this pronouncement, illegal
aliens are going to be able to apply online in
the next two months for taxpayer funded rental assistance. So
it's it's like a backhanded thing. It's it's like, come
to Los Angeles illegally. If the federal authorities catch up
with you during a raid, local officials are going to

(04:18):
use taxpayer money to subsidize your stay. You know, don't
worry about not paying rent, don't worry about being here illegally.
It's another thing where they're incentivizing more illegal immigration, and
it's a slap in the face to all these ice
agents who put their lives on the line, you know,
every day, you know, go into these raids, in these sweeps,
and so it's astonishing how far sanctuary sanctuary county or
a sanctuary city will go.

Speaker 1 (04:39):
Well, it's Los Angeles, all right, you've got governor news
some man. I mean, they're crazier every day. Look what's
going on in New York City now with the mayoral
race there. I mean, it's just one ludicrous move after another.
It's insanity. Really, I don't get the mindset here. I
really think they all'll be scanned for some mental issues
going on all right. Handah, thank you, I appreciate you.
Hanna Davis, the Federation from American imagrat nation reform,