What's Really Going On With H-1B Visas: Jobs, Fraud, and the People in the Middle

What's really going on with H-1B visas? Nora and Edward take a careful, fact-driven look at one of the most emotionally charged debates in American work: whether the H-1B program fills real skill gaps, undercuts U.S. workers, enables fraud, powers innovation, or traps legitimate immigrant workers in a fragile system.This episode holds both sides of the table. It takes seriously the American worker who loses a job or sees an employer use outsourcing and visa systems unfairly. It also takes seriously the legitimate H-1B worker who studied, competed, followed the rules, paid taxes, built a life in the U.S., and now faces suspicion, discrimination, hate, layoffs, green-card backlogs, and a 60-day countdown after job loss.The focus is constructive: protect U.S. workers, enforce against fraud and wage abuse, stop employer games, protect H-1B workers from exploitation and harassment, improve transparency, and build an immigration system with both teeth and humanity.Sources include U.S. Department of Labor, USCIS, DOJ, Congressional Research Service, Pew Research Center, and Associated Press reporting.