Hey y’all, welcome back to Unfit to Print.
I was out last week recovering from oral surgery, but I’m back just in time for the Trump administration’s new crackdown on labor discrimination.
WILL AMERICA FIRST APPLY TO BIG TECH?
Disney became emblematic of the dangers of the H1-B program when, in 2015, it laid off hundreds of American tech workers and forced some of them to train their foreign replacements.
A decade later, the Trump administration is finally promising to punish employers who discriminate against Americans in favor of foreign labor — and give workers on the receiving end a way to fight back.
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) released a public service announcement Monday urging Americans who were discriminated against by their employers to contact them.
“That’s national origin discrimination. It’s illegal, and the EEOC is fighting back to protect workers of ALL races who are American,” the EEOC’s X post said.
Vice President JD Vance was even more forceful: “The Trump Administration will hold every corporation accountable for replacing American workers with cheap foreign labor.”
This is the kind of employer-side enforcement I’ve been arguing is essential if an “America First” immigration and labor policy is actually going to mean anything.
But I’m only cautiously optimistic.
Here’s why.
