Texas journalist Sara Gonzales, who “exposed” H-1B “scams” in Texas while visiting H-1B employers in the state, said the $100,000 fee won’t be a deterrent because companies already save enough money by paying these workers lower wages that they can easily use the fee to hire H-1Bs. The new fees are effective September 21, 2025. Registration for the fiscal year 2027 H-1B cap will begin on March 4. All registered employees must remember that they must pay $100,000 for each selected H-1B candidate. That’s too little, Gonzalez said, adding that while everyone is worried about illegal immigration, legal immigration is doing unprecedented things that are destroying America. “Microsoft, Southwest Airlines just recently opened an outsourcing center in Hyderabad, India, and that’s where most of the fraud comes from. They’re just moving all of that fraud back to their home countries,” Gonzalez said. “A $100,000 visa fee is not enough because what is happening now is that these companies are bringing in these workers and they are still hiring them at lower wages than American workers. These big companies want to save the minimum amount of money. They will continue to snatch all H-1B workers, even though the Department of Labor has specific conditions that require you to pay these people the same so-called prevailing wage as Americans, but USCIS is not responsible for this,” the reporter said. American companies are bringing in these H-1Bs at a low price, lowering their wages, and in the process they save enough money to pay $100,000 to bring them in. “The whole system is bad. The whole thing is corrupt. America is failing in every way and we have to fix it,” Gonzalez said.The Texas reporter said that on the one hand, there is artificial intelligence, and then the United States is importing talent. After Gonzalez’s investigation, Texas froze H-1B hiring at all state agencies and universities and announced investigations into three companies that had hired H-1B workers in the past.
