H-1B Crackdown: D'Esposito Says 'Handcuffs Are Ready'
Update, Sept. 29 Since publication, Inspector General D'Esposito warned in a September 25 video that more suspensions, search warrants and arrests are likely as the inquiry moves into the field, per Particle News' coverage of the federal probe. Investigators have cited July–August field checks that found locked or inactive corporate offices tied to hundreds of approved H-1B petitions — the agency's evidence of sham employers and visa-mill activity. The DOL OIG is also urging US and foreign workers to report exploitation, coercion or 'benching' (being kept idle on a petition), a tip-line push that could widen the dragnet to healthcare and staffing firms already in the probe's sights. H-1B Crackdown: D'Esposito Says 'Handcuffs Are Ready' The man leading the Trump administration's assault on H-1B visa abuse says investigators are no longer just auditing paperwork — they are building criminal cases. And he is putting the entire foreign-labor sys...