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Sonderling and Inspector General D'Esposito on National Report: Labor Fraud, H-1B and J-1 Investigations

October 9, 2026 · USDepartmentofLabor · 0:03:54

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What happened

Labor Secretary Keith Sonderling and Department of Labor Inspector General Anthony D’Esposito appeared together on National Report on October 9, 2026, according to the Department of Labor’s recording, which was rendered in Arabic-rendered auto-captions and is paraphrased here. Asked about Microsoft’s statement that it does not undermine American workers, Sonderling said the numbers speak for themselves and that he would let multiple federal investigations speak for themselves as well. He said President Trump believes American workers are the best in the world, and that much of the displacement is based on fraud.

Sonderling said both he and the inspector general serve on the Vice President’s fraud task force and have been given authority to look seriously at systemic fraud in labor programs. He said he holds administrative authority to act against large IT outsourcing companies — naming firms he said are under investigation — including by preventing them from continuing to convert their H-1B workers into permanent residents, while the inspector general holds the criminal authority. He said companies that enabled American jobs to go to foreign workers are on notice and will face civil and criminal consequences.

D’Esposito said President Trump and Vice President Vance secured the southern border against entry through the front door, and that he and Sonderling are securing the back door. He said people enter the country unlawfully and are catered to by companies, groups and universities, and he accused major universities — naming Harvard, Yale, Stanford, Brown and MIT as examples raised in the segment — of using J-1 visas to bring people in, keep them unlawfully, and leak information to adversaries including the Chinese Communist Party, as he characterized the investigations. He said subpoenas have been issued, investigations are ongoing, and that the effort is a whole-of-government approach to anti-fraud that he framed as an American issue rather than a partisan one, aimed at securing American jobs for American workers.

Why it matters

The joint appearance puts the Labor Department’s administrative tools and its inspector general’s criminal authority on the same stage, signaling that H-1B and J-1 enforcement is being run as a single fraud campaign out of the Vice President’s task force rather than as separate agency actions.

Sources: USDepartmentofLabor, “Secretary Keith Sonderling and Inspector General Anthony D’Esposito appear on National Report”, 2026-10-09 (official upload, embedded above; published 2026-10-09). Transcript via Supadata (private research store, paraphrased and attributed, not republished). All figures and characterizations as stated by the speakers.