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Vance Slams H-1B Visas As Trump Scrutinizes Abuses In Legal Immigration

‘On average, H-1B workers earn 16 percent less than comparable natives,’ one paper found.

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We have an intentions versus outcomes problem, and Vice President J.D. Vance is becoming more vocal about it.

Vice President Vance on the Trump Administration's H1B visa reforms:"The H-1B should not exist to replace American workers with low-wage foreigners. It should exist to enrich the American economy." pic.twitter.com/7bunZ97u5Z— Vice President JD Vance (@VP) September 27, 2026

Vice President Vance on the Trump Administration's H1B visa reforms:"The H-1B should not exist to replace American workers with low-wage foreigners. It should exist to enrich the American economy." pic.twitter.com/7bunZ97u5Z

In 1952, the McCarran-Walter Act reorganized the American immigration system over President Harry Truman’s overridden veto. Among the features of the new law was a provision allowing for the temporary entry of “an alien having a residence in a foreign country which he has no intention of abandoning … who is of distinguished merit and ability and who is coming temporarily to the United States to perform temporary services of an exceptional nature requiring such merit and ability.” That law created the H nonimmigrant classification for guest workers, which included a new H-1 category for highly skilled visitors.

In 1990, Congress amended those requirements, replacing the language about “distinguished merit” with a “speciality occupation” category for work that requires “theoretical and practical application of a body of highly specialized knowledge.” (You can read a detailed legislative history of the H-1B visa here.)

The thing we know as the H-1B visa was born in that definition, and you can see the implication: America was opening its doors to the finest minds in the world, allowing........

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