Ram Venkatachalam
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Ram Venkatachalam
@RamForVA
Parent | Problem Solver | Republican Nominee for Virginia's 26th House of Delegates District

Texas State Senate 9 Special Election Early vote reported: 🔵 Taylor Rehmet (D) – 25,667 (56.2%) 🔴 Leigh Wambsganss (R) – 19,979 (43.8%) Donald Trump won this district by 17 points in 2024.




🚨 The H-1B story in 9 lines (aka how a “talent visa” became a cheap-labor pipeline) 1.1990: Congress creates H-1B. Supposed to be for rare, high-skill specialists. 2.1990s: Corporate lobbyists strip out protections for American workers. 3.2000: “Tech shortage” claims explode. Big Tech wins huge expansions. 4.2000s: Outsourcing firms figure out the loopholes — and flood the system. 5.2010s: H-1B stops being a talent visa. Becomes the backbone of offshore staffing. 6.Americans get laid off and forced to train their replacements. 7.2023–2024: Congress wakes up. Bipartisan reform bills finally appear. 8.2025: Trump slaps a $100,000 fee on H-1Bs. DHS tightens rules. 9.Now: The country is realizing what this visa actually became… a labor-arbitrage machine, not a talent pipeline. The “rise and fall of H-1B” isn’t a slogan. It’s the story of how a good idea was hijacked … and why reform is long overdue. americanaffairsjournal.org/2025/11/the-ri…

























