Trump's Civil Rights Chief: CEOs Cannot Discriminate Against U.S. Citizens
A million H-1Bs already sit in the chairs. Dhillon just told the CEOs the empty American chair is a civil-rights case.
Summary
- Breitbart reports Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon wrote Thursday that this administration will not let American employers discriminate against American workers. She called it illegal, wrong, and bad for the economy.
- The post landed after Elon Musk aligned with investors who say they may hire the foreigner they deem most qualified even if that sidelines Americans. Vice President JD Vance has argued the H-1B pipeline has already replaced millions of graduates.
- The H-1B program now keeps roughly 1 million migrants and spouses in jobs that can be filled by U.S. professionals. About 2 million resident non-immigrants hold H-1B, L-1, J-1, O-1, H-4 EAD, TN, OPT, or CPT work papers.
- Y Combinator's Garry Tan rebuked a deputy who sneered at flyover country and at Vance. Tan said the firm supports hiring Americans, defined as native-born or naturalized, a line that excludes the contract-worker stack.
Commentary
A Purdue grad still sits in a vinyl career-center chair with a dry lip and a folder of projects that already beat the job description. He does not get a seminar if the offer went to an OPT slot because the spreadsheet liked the price.
That is the gap. One million H-1Bs. Two million permits. A civil-rights chief who finally said the American chair is the protected class. The honest dad already paid the degree. The CEO still wants a loophole.
Ask every working father who still believes a hiring law has a country: if a CEO can call an American graduate flyover, who still owns the offer letter?
Comments
Dhillon named it: discrimination against citizens. That is a case, not a tweet.
I hired apprentices who already lived here. A million H-1Bs is a second draft, not a talent shortage.
Title VII still has a nationality clause. Use it. The empty American chair is the exhibit.
Allied tech shops already prefer their own grads first. That is not a slur. That is a country.
2 million permits is the stack. Vance named it. Gupta sneered. The filing writes itself.
My kid's CS degree cost night classes I already paid. Do not tell me the chair had to be imported.
A naturalized neighbor is an American. An OPT slot that undercuts her son is not.
A labor market that imports the desk will import the next chip design too. Start at the chair.
Breitbart printed Dhillon, 1 million H-1Bs, 2 million permits, and Tan's line. Argue those nouns.
Open the cases. Cap the pipeline. An American graduate is not flyover.
