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Kevin Lynn Discusses the Impact of Employment visas on College Graduates

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Kevin Lynn Discusses the Impact of Employment visas on College Graduates

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On Monday, November 10, 2025, Eric Sell an Acting Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the United States Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division, overseeing the Division’s Immigrant and Employee Rights section addressed our activists at a luncheon during U.S. Tech Workers On The Hill Event.

Eric Sell Addresses U.S. Tech Workers In Washington DC

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Kevin Lynn Interviewed by Emerald Robinson on the Topic of The H-1B Visa

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In this brief commentary, Kevin Lynn, Executive Director of the Institute for Sound Public Policy and Founder of U.S. Tech Workers, challenges economist Jeffrey Sachs' perspectives on America's economic divide. Lynn argues that contrary to Sachs' view that education access and "upskilling" are the primary barriers for American workers, the real issue is displacement of qualified American tech professionals through visa programs like H-1B, L-1, and STEM OPT. Drawing on both statistical evidence and first-hand accounts from displaced workers, Lynn makes the case that these programs artificially suppress wages and create barriers for American STEM professionals despite their qualifications.

https://ifspp.substack.com/p/h-1b-visas-and-american-tech-workers

H-1B Visas and American Tech Workers: A Response to Jeffrey Sachs

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In this electrifying discussion between host Kevin Lynn and geopolitical analyst Tom Luongo, the conversation unveils how the first 100 days of Trump's new administration has fundamentally reshaped global economic dynamics. Luongo passionately explains how Trump is dismantling decades of financial colonialism by ripping "the bandaid off global trade imbalances" that have existed since the 1950s.

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America Strikes Back: Trump's Trade Revolution and the Global Power Shift

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Kevin Lynn, Executive Director of The Institute for Sound Public Policy and founder of U.S. Tech Workers, discusses bulletin board notices about refugee resettlement during a walk through Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Lynn critiques various flyers supporting refugees, challenging claims about refugee benefits, resettlement statistics, and the role of non-governmental organizations. He argues that the Biden administration expanded refugee definitions inappropriately, supports President Trump's funding cuts to resettlement programs, and suggests that student activists don't understand the economic and social consequences of refugee policies.

Critique of Refugee Resettlement Advocacy on the College Campus of Franklin & Marshall

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Jon Feere, Director of Investigations at the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS), delivers a presentation on how two work authorization programs, Optional Practical Training (OPT) and Curricular Practical Training (CPT), are being gamed by universities and employers.

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Former Intel engineering technician and veteran Steve Peralta from Phoenix, Arizona, discusses the credential inflation at Intel, Micron Technology, other semiconductor companies, and American universities that denies educational and promotional opportunities for Americans while allowing foreign engineering technicians, who have fewer qualifications, the ability to be hired, promoted, and trained to become engineers.

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Former Intel Worker Steve Peralta Presents - Credential Inflation in the Semiconductor Industry

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Kevin Lynn, Executive Director of the Institute for Sound Public Policy, weighs in and gives greater insight into the workings of the H-1B Visa Program. This was part of a webinar on the labor practices of the semiconductor industry.

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The H-1B Visa, Your Replacements are Here

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"And yet, despite the above, there has been not only no letup in the number of foreign workers coming to take white-collar professional jobs, but the numbers are in fact increasing. This is the point where the lights on the @USDOL 's dashboard should be flashing red! Houston, we…

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2/ Link to article: https://open.substack.com/pub/ifspp/p/measuring-the-harm-done-by-college?r=3nnx0j&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false

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Not so crazy when one looks around.

Eric Weinstein @EricRWeinstein

I want to put forward a CRAZY fear:

We’re trying to figure out how to go back to doing science *without* creating pesky fiercely independent secure American Scientists.

No more Feynmans. No more Watsons.

Just business leaders, AI, military contractors, engineers, visa holders.

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Ryan James Girdusky @RyanGirdusky ·

25 Nov 1993410855384629737

Wow… Jordan Bardella, the successor of national populist leader Marine Le Pen is likely to be the next President of France.

At 32, he’ll be a younger leader of France than even Napoleon or Macron

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Project for Immigration Reform @PFIRorg ·

25 Nov 1993314444479549889

Not a single reporter has asked the right question on this issue:

The visas used to bring in specialist foreign workers for “training” or for helping set up manufacturing facilities are the E-2, B-1, and L-1 visas. So why is the White House conflating this with H-1B visas?

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Perhaps it is time for an immigration moratorium.

Senator Eric Schmitt @SenEricSchmitt

An illegal alien breaks into our country, cheats our system, racks up DUI arrests, pops out four anchor babies, and then steals a working-class American's identity—costing him thousands of dollars.

The media says the illegal is a victim.

There really is no low for these people.

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Edward Dowd @DowdEdward

AI czar setting up likely government support narrative.

Basically the economy is so hollowed out that the only game in town is the race to build the digital gulag. Good times.

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Wall Street Mav @WallStreetMav ·

23 Nov 1992728240671384026

Location of all the "America First" accounts supporting H-1B visas on X.

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Wall Street Mav @WallStreetMav ·

22 Nov 1992060226149794191

I look at all of these videos of empty construction sites, due to ICE raids in North Carolina, and it makes me sad.

Not for the illegal aliens. It makes me sad that they betrayed Americans who used to have those good construction jobs. They sold out for cheap 3rd world labor and…

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