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Sonderling on Fox News: Labor Department Moves Against H-1B Visa Fraud

October 14, 2026 · USDepartmentofLabor · 0:04:10

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What happened

Labor Secretary Keith Sonderling told host Laura Ingraham that fighting fraud across workforce and workplace programs — including the H-1B visa program — is a central mission of the administration, working with what he described as the White House anti-fraud task force. He said the program, meant for specialized skills the U.S. lacks, has instead been used for basic software consulting, engineering, and IT jobs that American workers can fill.

Sonderling said companies have been able to pay foreign workers, in his words, 25 to 35 percent less, displacing American workers, and that H-1B workers who are supposed to be temporary — three years, extendable to six — often stay, obtain green cards, and become citizens. He announced that, as Secretary, he was using his authority to suspend companies that abuse the system from filing permanent labor certification applications, the step that leads to those long-term green cards.

He said the department’s inspector general had begun criminal proceedings against the companies involved, with a particular focus, he said, on large IT outsourcing firms that enabled much of the fraud. Ingraham pressed for the program’s outright abolition and for jail time; Sonderling said the program is set by Congress and needs reform, but promised the enforcement actions his department had taken that day.

Why it matters

The segment lays out the Labor Department’s chosen enforcement lever on H-1B — cutting abusive employers off from the permanent-residency pipeline — and the administration’s framing of visa fraud as wage theft from American workers.

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Sonderling announced company suspensions from the permanent labor certification program and criminal proceedings by the department’s inspector general; the suspensions and any resulting cases are checkable against Labor Department enforcement records.

Sources: USDepartmentofLabor, “Secretary Sonderling Joins The Ingraham Angle on Fox News”, 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.