You’ve been told H-1B visas are for the “brightest minds.” The geniuses. The specialized workers America desperately needs because we just can’t produce enough talent domestically.

That was always a lie. But now they’re not even pretending anymore.

Dallas Independent School District is hiring middle school math teachers on H-1B visas.

Salary: $62,000 a year. Paid by Texas taxpayers.

Tell me again how no American can do that job.

The Original Promise

The H-1B visa program was sold as a “skills shortage solution.”

America needs specialized workers. Engineers. Scientists. Experts in fields where domestic talent is genuinely scarce. Bring in the best from around the world to fill critical gaps.

That was the pitch.

Here’s the reality: corporations discovered they could use H-1B visas to replace American workers with cheaper foreign labor. Same jobs. Lower wages. No pesky demands for raises or better conditions.

And now it’s spread from Silicon Valley to public school classrooms.

The Texas Situation

Sara Gonzales dug into the data for her home state.

“I literally just picked at random several different cities in the state of Texas, and I went through some of the employers, and I found some of these jobs and how much these people are being paid to take a job away from a Texan.”

What she found was damning.

Dallas ISD: Middle school math teacher. $62,000. H-1B visa.

Dallas ISD: High school science teacher. $70,000. H-1B visa.

These aren’t jobs requiring Nobel laureates. These aren’t positions demanding skills that exist nowhere in America. These are teaching jobs that any certified American educator could fill.

Texas is among the top states for H-1B visa approvals. And Texas taxpayers are funding the displacement of Texas workers.

The Scale of the Scam

H-1B visas might seem like a small issue compared to illegal immigration. It’s not.

“It is hundreds of thousands of people — if not in the millions at this point — that we have allowed into our country on this H-1B visa,” Gonzales explained.

Hundreds of thousands. Taking jobs that Americans could do. In communities across the country.

And unlike illegal immigrants, these workers are here with government blessing. They’re legal. They’re documented. And they’re systematically replacing the American workforce.

The Money Drain

It’s not just about jobs. It’s about where the money goes.

“That money that they’re being paid isn’t actually being put back into the American economy. Sometimes exporting those salaries across wherever they came from — across the world — in remittances.”

A Dallas teacher making $62,000 on an H-1B visa may be sending significant portions of that salary back to their home country. The money leaves Texas. It leaves America. It doesn’t circulate in local businesses or support local communities.

Meanwhile, a Texan who could have had that job would spend that money at Texas businesses, pay Texas property taxes, build a life in Texas communities.

The economic impact compounds. Every H-1B job is money extracted from local economies.

The Housing Crisis Connection

“And they’re taking American housing, which is of course driving up the price of housing for Americans.”

H-1B workers need places to live. In cities already facing housing shortages, that additional demand drives prices higher.

A young American teacher who might have bought a modest home in Dallas is now competing against H-1B workers for the same limited housing stock. Prices rise. Affordability falls.

The program doesn’t just take jobs. It takes housing. It takes opportunity. It takes the American Dream from Americans.

The Corporate Lie

Companies have been claiming “skills shortages” for decades while simultaneously laying off American workers.

The pattern is well-documented. A corporation announces it can’t find qualified Americans. It brings in H-1B workers. The American employees are forced to train their replacements before being terminated.

Disney did it. They made American IT workers train their foreign replacements as a condition of receiving severance.

Now the practice has spread to public schools. Government institutions. Taxpayer-funded positions.

If Disney could claim no Americans were qualified for IT jobs, why not claim no Americans can teach seventh-grade algebra?

The Certification Scam

These teaching positions require certification. That’s it.

“A regular average American could qualify for that job with a certification,” Gonzales pointed out.

There’s no shortage of certified teachers in Texas. There’s no shortage of Americans willing to teach for $62,000 a year. There’s no unique skill that only foreign workers possess.

The “skills shortage” is manufactured. The visa is a tool for something else — whether it’s lower wages, more compliant workers, or just bureaucratic momentum that nobody questions.

The Moratorium Solution

Gonzales didn’t mince words about what needs to happen.

“We need to stop immigration. We need to put a moratorium on immigration, on H-1B visas, for as long as it takes in order to get our country back.”

That’s the only solution that addresses the scope of the problem.

Tinkering with quotas doesn’t work. Adjusting requirements doesn’t work. The system is designed to be exploited, and corporations have armies of lawyers dedicated to exploiting it.

Stop the program entirely. Force employers to hire Americans. Let wages rise to market levels. Watch the mythical “skills shortage” evaporate overnight.

The Loyalty Question

“I’m not beholden to people across the world. I don’t need to make sure that they feel good about it.”

That’s the core issue.

American immigration policy should serve American interests. American workers. American communities. American families.

Instead, it serves corporate interests. Global labor markets. The fiction that borders shouldn’t apply to employment.

Every H-1B visa is a statement that an American worker is less valuable than a foreign worker. Every approval is a choice to prioritize someone else over our own citizens.

Gonzales is right: we don’t owe the world access to American jobs. We owe Americans the opportunity to earn a living in their own country.

The Betrayal

“They took YOUR job.”

Dallas taxpayers are paying foreign workers to teach Texas kids while qualified Texans look for work.

That’s not immigration policy. That’s betrayal.

It’s betrayal by corporations who would rather hire compliant foreign workers than negotiate with Americans.

It’s betrayal by politicians who take donations from those corporations and look the other way.

It’s betrayal by a system that was supposed to bring in geniuses and instead imports anyone willing to work for less.

The Bottom Line

A middle school math teaching job in Dallas.

$62,000 a year. H-1B visa. Taxpayer funded.

That job belonged to a Texan. An American. Someone who went through certification, built a life in the community, and wanted to teach kids.

It was taken. Legally. With government approval. Using your tax dollars.

The H-1B program isn’t filling skills gaps. It’s displacing American workers from jobs Americans can absolutely do.

From Silicon Valley to Dallas classrooms, the scam is the same. Claim a shortage that doesn’t exist. Import workers who’ll accept less. Watch Americans struggle to compete in their own country.

It needs to stop. A moratorium. A complete halt until American workers are prioritized in American jobs.

They took your job.

It’s time to take it back.