The Somali fraud is only a drop in the bucket, as it compares to the elaborate Indian fraud and scam networks that are taking American tech jobs and hurting the American economy, through H-1B visas, bought degrees and fake certifications.
Since COVID, 90 percent of the net gain in American jobs have gone to foreign workers, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Tech companies are passing over American college students for foreign workers, many of whom have scam degrees and certifications.
In astudyconducted by the Institute for Sound Public Policy, 60 percent of American citizens and 86 percent of foreign Computer Science Master’s graduates got jobs six months after graduation from UMass Amherst in 2022.
In one instance, the University of Pittsburgh tried to hire for a tech position, yet the position was open only to candidates with an H-1B visa. And another in a taxpayer-funded university in Indiana. Another at Stanford.
By allowing the prioritization of H-1B workers in STEM, the market has been flooded with fake foreign degrees while devaluing science and engineering degrees for American college grads, leaving American STEM talent more susceptible to under and unemployment.
A South China Morning Post exposerevealedan India-based University, Manav Bharti University (MBU), reportedly sold 36,000 fake degrees over 11 years for less than $5,000 each- and U.S. employers accepted them!
The bottom line is that people with fake degrees do not compare in quality to American workers with American degrees and certifications, which has had broad effects throughout the American tech industry, including massive bugs, cloud malfunctions and cybersecurity failures.
On Cyber Monday in December 2025, Shopify, a user of H1-B labor for tech, had amassive glitch failurethat halted their ability to process transactions, causing a 6% drop in Shopify stock, not to mention, the thousands of small businesses that could not process orders on the highest day of online sales.
H-1B visas may be great for short-term quarterly gains of the highest performing U.S. technology-sector stocks, “Mag 7,” but fraud is terrible for the American economy and national security.
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