Vice President Vance announces Labor Department H-1B visa fraud probes during Milwaukee visit

Vice President Vance visited Milwaukee on Wednesday and announced that the Labor Department has launched investigations into foreigners involved in the H-1B visa program. H-1B visas are employer-sponsored, non-immigrant visas that allow U.S. companies to hire foreign workers with specialty skills.

Vance said the department has sought dozens of subpoenas and launched multiple investigations. "Here's a simple principle, ladies and gentlemen: American jobs ought to go to American workers and not foreign fraudsters, and the Department of Labor is fighting back against it," Vance said while speaking at the Wisconsin Air National Guard's 128th Air Refueling Wing.

"Big corporations and fraudsters overseas are using this program to undercut the wages of American workers," he said.

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political remarks Vance said the Trump administration has saved "billions and billions of dollars" that was going to fraudsters. He framed the crackdown as an important midterm issue in Wisconsin and said Democrats have not addressed fraud. "Not a single congressional Democrat stood up and said we are going to fight back against fraud, and that's the problem with modern Congressional Democrats," he said.

Vance praised Wisconsin GOP Reps. Byran Steil, Derrick Van Orden, Tony Wied, Glenn Grothman and Tom Tiffany. He said Tiffany, who is vying for the Wisconsin governor's seat, "takes fraud as seriously" as Trump.

"This is not a normal election, because we're not running against people who maybe have different ideas about tax policy or regulatory policy," Vance said. Trump won Wisconsin in 2016 and 2024. Democrats are hoping for a trifecta win in the midterms, flipping seats in the state legislature and U.S.