By: Hannah Bates | The Federalist
The Trump administration started a major investigation into H-1B and PERM foreign labor visas, the Labor Department’s Inspector General Anthony P. D’Esposito announced Wednesday.
The investigation aims to take the “most aggressive action against foreign labor fraud by an Inspector General this administration” to further President Trump’s goal to end foreign violence on American soil and return jobs to the American people, D’Esposito told Fox Business.
D’Esposito, who is leading the investigation, stated that the department has already begun “issu[ing] dozens of subpoenas.” He also noted that there are “whistleblowers talking about some of the biggest companies” who have abused H1-B and PERM (Permanent Labor Certification) visas.
By partnering “side by side with the president and vice president’s fraud task force,” the inspector general hopes to “track down every lead” and provide “investigators and auditors every resource necessary in order to conduct this investigation for the American people,” he said.
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