The H-1B visa program, which allows US companies to hire skilled workers from foreign countries, has remained a major flashpoint in the current Donald Trump administration, with tech leaders supporting the program, citing a major talent crunch in the US, and a section of MAGA calling for a complete termination of the program. According to critics of the visa program, tech companies hire underskilled foreigners in less salary and thus deprive Americans of those jobs. But now a more serious issue has come to the surface: companies are trafficking people in the name of H-1B jobs while no such jobs exist.
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