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Sonderling Describes Visa Fraud Crackdown and H-1B Investigations on Fox & Friends Weekend

October 14, 2026 · USDepartmentofLabor · 0:05:41

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What happened

Labor Secretary Keith Sonderling told Fox & Friends Weekend that the Labor Department was investigating alleged visa fraud, including at universities, and that participation by companies including Microsoft and Adobe in the employment-based green card program had been suspended, according to the Department of Labor’s upload of the appearance. The segment opened with Vice President JD Vance arguing, in a clip, that American companies should hire American workers rather than lay off Americans and replace them with foreign labor.

Sonderling said the administration’s approach had two parts: creating private-sector jobs in industries he said had been offshored, and eliminating fraud. He said the Labor Department was participating in the Vice President’s task force and was finding what he characterized as systemic fraud in the H-1B program, with employers using it for years to offshore work or bring in foreign workers instead of hiring Americans.

Sonderling said H-1B workers were paid on average 25 to 35 percent less than the American workers they replaced, and he cited cases in which American workers had to train their foreign replacements to receive severance. He said the programs were designed to bring in skills the country lacked, not to displace American workers, and that the administration would not accept the displacement practice continuing.

Why it matters

The appearance lays out the Labor Department’s enforcement theory on employment visas — wage undercutting and replacement of American workers — and places the department inside the Vice President’s cross-agency fraud task force, as Sonderling described it.

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Sources: USDepartmentofLabor, “Secretary Sonderling Joins Fox & Friends Weekend”, 2026-10-14 (official upload, embedded above; published 2026-10-14). Transcript via Supadata (private research store, paraphrased and attributed, not republished). All figures and characterizations as stated by the speakers.