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Parsing Immigration Policy: ‘Industrialized’ Fraud in the H-1B Visa Program

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Politics, News

4.4652 Ratings

🗓️ 20 November 2025

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

In the latest episode of Parsing Immigration Policy, Jessica Vaughan, Director of Policy Studies, sits down with Mahvash Siddiqui, a U.S. Foreign Service officer, to discuss systemic fraud in the H-1B visa program. Speaking in her private capacity, Ms. Siddiqui shares firsthand experiences from her time as a consular officer in Chennai (Madras), India – […]

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0:00.0

We simply cannot allow people to pour into the United States, undetected, undocumented, unchecked,

0:10.0

and complete the dang fence.

0:13.0

This bill that we will sign today is not a revolutionary bill.

0:18.0

Can't stone your bucket where you are. We come from France.

0:21.6

And I am, you know, adamantly against illegal immigrants.

0:25.6

They're coming in by the thousands.

0:27.6

Just unbelievable.

0:28.6

A wall is an immorality.

0:30.6

Who are you rooting for it?

0:32.6

Those masters of the universe are added again.

0:36.6

They're not sending their best.

0:40.0

You're a maniac.

0:42.4

You blow it up.

0:45.9

Hello, and welcome to parsing immigration policy, the podcast of the Center for Immigration

0:51.6

Studies.

0:52.7

I'm Jessica Vaughn, director of policy studies, filling in for

0:56.2

Mark Corcorian, our fearless leader, and our usual host of this podcast. Today, we're going to focus on

1:02.9

H-1B visas. That's a topic that has become pretty hot lately on the heels of some interesting remarks

1:09.9

by President Trump in an interview

1:11.8

with Fox News host, Laura Ingram, and in the midst of changes to the program that are being

1:17.5

implemented by the Trump administration, with the stated goal of reorienting the program in favor

1:23.7

of admitting more skilled applicants. That has been one major criticism of the H-1B program. Our research

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