The Department of Justice is increasing a whistleblower program to reward company insiders who expose hidden white-collar migration crimes.
“Today, we now have added the next precedence areas for ideas: procurement and federal program fraud; commerce, tariff, and customs fraud; violations of federal immigration regulation,” mentioned a division official, Matthew Galeotti, chief of the division’s Criminal Division.
The information created concern amongst corporations that sideline American graduates in favor of hiring low cost, and subordinate international white-collar staff, typically by way of the mixed-skill H-1B, J-1, H4EAD, B-1/B-2, CPT, and OPT packages. Those packages are closely utilized by clannish Indian managers and their subordinate staff, with the sturdy backing of India’s authorities.
“New DOJ Whistleblower Policy Bad News For Employers Of Immigrants And H-1B Visa Holders,” wrote Stuart Anderson, a pro-migration advisor. He added:
The coverage would permit the DOJ to develop efforts to prosecute employers of immigrants and H-1B visa holders. A Department of Justice memo issued in February 2025 directed federal prosecutors to prioritize immigration-related instances. The new whistleblower coverage confirms that the Trump administration’s prime problem stays immigration enforcement.
But the information was applauded by Americans who see blatant and steady discrimination in opposition to American graduates, normally by the Indian-born hiring managers and recruiters who now dominate many hiring and recruitment workplaces throughout the nation.
“This is superb, totally superb,” mentioned Jay Palmer, a migration professional who works with legal professionals to assist each migrants and Americans. “What he had executed is supplied a superb car to counter the fraud, the abuse, and the manipulation” within the white collar sector, Palmer mentioned
The announcement additionally comes after the brand new head of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), Andrea Lucas, introduced extra concentrate on visa fraud. “If you might be a part of the pipeline contributing to our immigration disaster or abusing our authorized immigration system by way of unlawful preferences in opposition to American staff, it’s essential to cease,” she mentioned.
“We hope that what they do to implement legal guidelines has enamel and results in change,” mentioned Dan Kotchen, at Kotchen & Low LLP, who has filed discrimination instances in opposition to main Indian-run staffing corporations. He can also be submitting visa fraud instances by way of the False Claims Act, regardless of passivity from the federal authorities.
How it really works
Executives and shareholders at Fortune 500 companies use layered pyramids of subcontractor distributors to attenuate their use of full-time, well-paid, free-speaking, and productive American professionals, together with programmers, accountants, architects, and managers.
The federal authorities permits many U.S. corporations and “bodyshop” subcontractors — together with many small companies — to fill the roles with all kinds of mixed-skill, no-rights, subservient, international contract staff. Some of the imported staff are expert — however many are anticipated to be taught on the job.
The Fortune 500 pyramids are very worthwhile as a result of they permit cooperating CEOs and managers to divert a majority of every outsourcing contract into earnings.
For instance, the first subcontractor might have few staff for a brand new contract, so it hires staff from a number of subcontractors, who employed staff from their sub-subcontractors, who employed staff from their sub-sub-subcontractors. “There is a deliberate try to convert full-time [white-collar] positions to W2 contracting [jobs] so that they [each subcontractor] get a lower wherever from $5 – $25 per hour,” an Indian-origin citizen instructed Breitbart News. “I’ve seen many layers of mid[-level vendors who are just pass through [firms to get] get a lower of $5 [per hour] every.”
Indian-born managers within the United States routinely hearth expert, productive American professionals earlier than promoting their jobs to kickback-paying Indian contract staff, in line with Americans and Indians who’ve labored beneath these Indian-style workplace politics. The anti-merit workplace politics are echoed by many Twitter feedback.
Indians dominate the contractor enterprise and likewise dominate the enterprise of recruiting know-how specialists for contract jobs. They typically exclude American professionals throughout job searches to favor subordinated, kickback-paying Indians, mentioned Palmer.
The Americans will not be going to present them a kickback so all of the Indians [recruiters and hiring managers] will get in the event that they rent an American is the [commission] cash they make from the [Fortune 500] firm that contracted them [to recruit workers].
An Indian supervisor — and I noticed this 1,000,000 fucking instances, excuse my language — [who instead hires Indians] won’t solely get [commission] cash from the corporate who employed them to fill the [job] roles, however they’ll additionally get kickbacks from the Indian that comes over [wbecause he] can pay them [for the U.S. job].
“The unlucky factor was, there was fraud within the [federal government’s] counter-fraud mission,” one Indian former visa employee instructed Breitbart, including:
The supervisor was Indian, and he stored hiring subcontractors. He would reject all the workers inside the firm, saying they didn’t have some explicit talent. And then he would request for subcontractors, and the subcontractors could be simply contemporary graduates … The mission failed as a result of he stored bringing all of the folks on board, and so they have been lacking deadline after deadline, after which ultimately they fired him.
“People ask me: “Why do the Indians tolerate that?” — it’s due to poverty of their residence nation,” Palmer mentioned. Many Indians are determined to stay in America, and others will work any job to ship {dollars} again to their Indian households. They “stay seven or eight to a home and ship their a refund to India,” he added.
U.S. executives ignore the nationwide anti-American discrimination, partly as a result of it shrinks the office clout of U.S. professionals. The U.S. executives additionally depend on Indian managers to handle the ensuing chaos and inefficiencies created by their mixed-skill Indian staff, in line with many U.S. and Indian staff and managers.
“Everyone wished to maintain it hush-hush and, you understand, make it possible for the C-level guys slept properly at evening,” mentioned Raul from Texas, who watched contractors and executives cover the contractors’ failure in a routine job. “I’d be curious to listen to from the CFO perspective that they know of sure initiatives like this with a number of the big-name consulting companies which have gone over price range and what that seemed like from their aspect,” he added.
The closed-door chaos and inefficiencies are additionally unseen by profit-maximizing firm boards and Wall Street stockpickers.
There are not any federal guidelines requiring corporations to elucidate the reason for expensive computer-related crashes, despite the fact that federal officers intently examine trucking and plane crashes.
The pro-Indian favoritism can also be hidden behind Indian banks, languages, office politics, caste guidelines, and social strain from Indians in India and the United States.
Some lawsuits have been profitable. For instance, the Indian-run Cognizant staffing firm misplaced a lawsuit in late 2024.
Overall, “the U.S. visa program has been used as a instrument of labor arbitrage,” mentioned Kotchen, the lawyer. “We’re a tiny agency making an attempt to vary an business to cease a observe that’s abusive … to Americans [and to] indentured visa workers. “It’s nearly as if we’re going again to the commercial revolution when it comes to how workers are being handled,” he added.
For instance, in February, he filed a racial discrimination case in opposition to an Indian-run staffing firm and certainly one of its recruiting companies, on behalf of an American citizen, Damilola Obembe:
Ms. Obembe was well-qualified for the place, and based mostly on her conversations with IDC [Technologies recruiting] nrepresentatives, believed that she could be pretty thought of and sure employed by TCS [Tata Consultancy Services]. That notion, nonetheless, was shortly dispelled after IDC mistakenly despatched Ms. Obembe on an e-mail which acknowledged: “No Nigerians are accepted for Practice roles, Latin & Indians solely.”
“To effectuate its preferences, TCS instructs [recruiters] to display out candidates of non-preferred races and nationwide origins,” says the Kotchen lawsuit:
TCS has a decade plus historical past of instructing third-party distributors to favor candidates of sure races and nationwide origins and to display out candidates from non-preferred races and nationwide origins. For occasion, in an October 5, 2012 e-mail chain, a consultant from RConnect LLC (a third-party vendor) despatched TCS Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist Brian Galicki a candidate for a billable U.S. place whose final title was “Swanson.” Mr. Galicki forwarded the candidate to a TCS mission supervisor, who mentioned: “I don’t know easy methods to ask this subtly.. do u assume we will get somebody ‘desi’ [Indian] for this rek? [job]”
….
On March 4, 2013, Mr. Galicki, the identical TCS recruiter from the 2012 e-mail chain, emailed a consultant from E*Pro Inc. (a third-party vendor), in search of candidates for a TCS observe function and stating, “I would like extra candidates for this however they[ ]have to be Desi [slang for Indian] as there’s lots of offshore coordination.”
TCS — like quite a few different Indian-run staffing corporations — provides Indian contract staff to many Fortune 500 corporations in search of to attenuate payroll for American professionals. TCS purchasers reportedly embody Goldman Sachs, Rivian, Comcast, Target, Lyft, and lots of different companies. The Indian contract staff are imported by way of the work-permit packages, such because the H-1B program.
In 2023, the Indian press reported that Milind Lakkad, TCS’ chief human sources officer, mentioned he wished to cut back the variety of Americans in its U.S. workforce and to rent extra Indians who had misplaced jobs within the United States:
The firm can also be open to hiring folks of Indian diaspora within the US who’ve misplaced their jobs with the [major U.S. firms] and could also be on the point of being pressured to return residence as per their visa situations, Lakkad mentioned.
At current, 70 per cent of its US workers are Americans, Lakkad mentioned, including that it want to get the quantity right down to 50 per cent as a result of it additionally desires to supply international alternatives to its employees in India.
The varied visa packages hold roughly 1.5 million international graduates in U.S. jobs, together with many authorities jobs. That inhabitants contains roughly 1 million mixed-skill Indian graduates, a rising variety of green-card staff, and continues to develop amid rising layoffs of American professionals. Many American professionals have switched to less-skilled sectors, nudging down the nation’s productiveness charges.
Many different Indians sneak into the United States by way of different channels, together with the Canadian schooling system. Many of the visa staff additionally get citizenship by way of obvious company fraud.
The pro-India technique is backed by India’s authorities, which makes use of its affect within the US authorities to migrate giant numbers of Indians — now about 5 million — into the United States. That huge migration ensures India’s economic system is boosted by remittances from emigrant Indian staff, and by company funding steered by Indian-born managers within the United States.
Costs to the United States
The Fortune 500’s reliance on Indian visa staff creates huge dangers to innovation, privateness, inventory values, and nationwide safety.
For instance, most of the mixed-skill Indian staff share their laptop screens with on-line advisors based mostly in India, U.S. professionals instructed Breitbart. Others switch company secrets and techniques and private information again to India. Some of that information is offered to India’s home-grown business of phone-call scammers who’re stealing billions of {dollars} from older Americans every year. Indian tradition accepts a big stage of bribery and corruption.
Some U.S. companies try to cut back the chance of getting their very important processes and delicate information depend upon Indian workplace politics.
The Indian influx has deeply broken profession prospects for a lot of American graduates who’re locked out of career-starting jobs by Indian recruiters. The Federal Reserve Bank of New York just lately reported :
The labor marketplace for current school graduates deteriorated noticeably within the first quarter of 2025. The unemployment charge jumped to five.8 p.c—the best studying since 2021—and the underemployment charge rose sharply to 41.2 p.c.
The unemployment charge for high-tech graduates was greater than common, in line with the report. For instance, the unemployment charge for “laptop engineering” graduates was 7.5 p.c, and for “laptop science” graduates was 6.1 p.c.
The influx has additionally frozen wage development for a lot of school graduates. The wealth switch to employers makes it tough for younger graduates to get married, purchase houses, and start households.
But “leisure and hospitality” graduates had a 3.7 p.c unemployment and “liberal arts” graduates had a 5.3 p.c unemployment charge.
The visa packages are consistently abused, Kotchen, and “probably the most surprising half about it’s that the legal guidelines on the books haven’t been enforced.” He added:
This will not be a Democratic problem, it’s each events on a bipartisan foundation have sided with main companies in opposition to [employees] — that’s 100% what is occurring … My agency has labored so arduous all through administrations, together with Trump’s first administration, to foster some extent of equity and compliance.
This month, the Department of Homeland Security introduced it will award nearly 120,000 extra H-1B visas to corporations. The award is way above the much-touted annual cap of 85,000 visas as a result of officers beneath President Joe Biden inspired extra non-profit enterprises — universities, hospitals, joint enterprises — to import the H-1Bs as an alternative of hiring American graduates for respectable salaries and good careers.