The Bait and Switch Bills: How Congress Sells Crackdowns While Expanding Foreign Labor

Thread 1 – HIRE Act 3 parts

Three bills in Congress right now paint a picture of where foreign labor policy is heading.

• The HIRE Act (Halting International Relocation of Employment): looks like a crackdown on outsourcing, hitting companies that ship jobs overseas.

• The SAFE HIRE Act: ties immigration compliance to securities law, forcing executives to certify they are following U.S. hiring rules.

• The H-2 “HIRE Act”: framed as relief for employers, but it’s really about speeding up the foreign labor pipelines.

Put together, they tell a story. The first two look like punishments for outsourcing and fraud. The third looks like a gift for labor brokers and employers. Nobody is talking about that last one… maybe because it’s easier to pass if it stays in the shadows.

The crackdown is the cover. The expansion is the goal. They want nothing more than convince us of this and have the anti- H1-B X-Poster accounts on the Capitol steps in November just like the influencers with the Epstein files.

Pawns.

This is a rare long thread- I don't do them because they rarely get reposted and suffer from throttle vs post series.

However, in this case these posts belong together and would be too long for one single post.

I recommend bookmarks because between now and the passage of the bills a lot of misinformation will present itself. The Bait and Switch Bills: How Congress Sells Crackdowns While Expanding Foreign Labor

Thread 2 –

The HIRE Act (Halting International Relocation of Employment)

Sen. Bernie Moreno (R-Ohio) introduced this bill in 2025 to stop U.S. companies from offshoring services.

Key provisions:

25% excise tax on outsourcing payments to foreign workers if those services benefit U.S. consumers.

Outsourcing payments cannot be deducted from U.S. taxes.

IRS given new oversight and penalty authority.

Money collected goes into a Domestic Workforce Fund for retraining, apprenticeships, and grants.

Effective for payments made after December 31, 2025.

What it means:

Outsourcing becomes much more expensive.

Loophole fights are coming-companies will try to reclassify services, use shell entities, or reroute work.

Foreign outsourcing economies (India, Philippines, Latin America) could see real contract losses.

Trade partners may view it as protectionist, sparking retaliation.

Enforcement will be messy: defining “services that benefit U.S. consumers” is broad enough to rope in software, call centers, SaaS, and back-office work.

It actually formalizes the Visa program in a way it's never been formally put together before, possibly making it a permanent fixture that can be expanded at a later date.

It’s pitched as pro-American jobs. In reality, it’s a giant compliance battle waiting to happen.

India is paying huge sums to salvage their remittance dollars as grassroots movements grow strong enough to threaten the entire visa pipeline.

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For years, the United States has been told that H-1B and other visa programs are about “skills gaps.” In reality, they are about money... specifically India’s $100B+ remittance flow, the lifeline of its economy. As anti-visa movements gain momentum in America, India has responded the same way any government facing exposure does: they hired Washington insiders, Beltway firms, and even social media influencers to drown out the truth.

The Lobbying Contracts
FARA filings show that in April 2025, the Indian Embassy signed a contract with Jason Miller’s SHW Partners for $150,000 per month (Fang, 2025). The scope included strategic counsel, tactical planning, and direct influence with the Trump administration, members of Congress, and the U.S. public. Miller has already posted Embassy-approved content on Truth Social under FARA disclosure.

In August 2025, the Embassy added Mercury Public Affairs at $75,000 per month for a three-month contract (Economic Times, 2025). Mercury’s scope covered lobbying, government and media relations, digital audits, social media strategy, and advertising. Mercury is not just any firm, it has deep Trump-world ties through Bryan Lanza, a former Trump transition aide, and Susie Wiles, a former Mercury co-chair who is now Trump’s Chief of Staff (NDTV, 2025).

Together, these contracts show a two-front strategy: SHW Partners as the direct MAGA access point, and Mercury as the polished Beltway operator working the establishment and mainstream channels.

The Influencer Push
Almost immediately after these contracts began, a wave of “America First” influencers started repeating identical talking points:

“India has always loved Trump.”

“India buys oil legally.”

“The real threat is China, not India.”

“Tariffs on India hurt Americans, not China.”

Posts with these lines came from accounts like Ryan Fournier, Gunther Eagleman, Election Wizard, and Chuck Callesto. This was not organic, it tracked with India’s paid lobbying. Reports from journalists and watchdog accounts allege that influencers were being paid $250 per post, or “a couple grand” for ongoing campaigns (Fang, 2025; AntiGrifterInc, 2025; Aesthetica, 2025). While those payments are not listed in FARA filings, the timing and uniformity suggest coordination.

The Silence During Cable Cuts
When an undersea cable cut disrupted India’s internet connectivity in late summer, many of these same influencers went quiet at the exact same time. Their simultaneous silence raised questions: were their accounts being operated directly from India? Was access being routed through offshore teams? The disruption exposed the possibility that what appeared to be domestic voices may have in fact been foreign-controlled pipelines.

Platform Suppression
The effort is not just about flooding narratives, it is also about suppressing dissent. Chief_Engineer and other anti-visa activists have seen their posts flagged as “hate speech,” their reach throttled, and even their followers warned or shadowbanned. Daily throttling is visible, yet Grok and platform tools fail to explain why. Requests for explanation about demonetization and labels have gone months with no reply. Subscription only is keeping the premium account access available, while nearly 5000 verified accounts are following this accounts content. Crazy - right?

Coordinated harassment has also been documented. Groups like Team Banner X on Telegram have targeted anti-visa influencers, organizing mass complaint campaigns against their posts and celebrating each account suspension as a win. Screenshots of these groups show logs of which accounts they managed to take down, suggesting part of the influence operation is to silence opposing voices directly through coordinated reporting.

(Cont..) 👇 Political Doublespeak
Even U.S. politicians are part of the script. Senator Mike Lee of Utah has repeatedly called for “fixing H-1B abuses.” That language may sound tough, but it is code for saving the program, not ending it. True allies of American workers call for eliminating the visa scam entirely. Calls for reform often mean rebranding or expanding the system under new names, not protecting American jobs.

The Bigger Picture
Canada’s own foreign interference inquiry has already labeled India a top threat, citing covert attempts to infiltrate and undermine democratic institutions while repressing critics (COIN, 2025). Combined with multinational outsourcing firms like Tata, Infosys, Wipro, Cognizant, and HCL exploiting H-1B loopholes, the picture is clear: this is a fifth-column strategy.

India is running influence operations on every level, buying lobbyists in D.C., seeding narratives through influencers, silencing critics on platforms, weaponizing harassment networks, and enlisting politicians to preserve the program. It is not allyship. It is paid influence designed to protect remittance flows while American workers lose jobs, voices, and futures.

References- 👇

They had to run the drill before Trump took office. In May 2024, the skies over New Jersey lit up with multiple drones working together to create what looks like a holographic stage. This was a rehearsal for Project Blue Beam. Notice how the operation stopped exactly on the day Trump took office, and even he seemed confused, relaying whatever they told him.

Similar to Dr. Fauci telling Trump to flatten the curve.

🧵 This is a rare thread from @ChiefNiftyswell so it must be worth the read.

Bookmark this thread now. You will want to share this when it goes down.
from article: x.com/ChiefNiftyswel… It was an elaborate show that terrified many in 2024. Everyone stayed tight-lipped. Drones came from the water, some resembling satellite images of CCP drones. No one spoke openly, but those paying attention could break it down.

Hover drones have ultra-large blades designed to hold significant weight. They may appear white, gray, or black. These drones act as stable platforms but seem limited in flight duration, about 4 to 6 hours per event.

India’s Trash Crisis Is Rooted in the Caste System - and We’re Importing It

Ever wonder why trash piles up in so many parts of India?

It’s not just overcrowding. It’s caste.

For centuries, the lowest castes - especially Dalits - were forced to do society’s dirtiest work: handling human waste, sweeping streets, cleaning latrines. Not by choice, but by birth. It was caste slavery, sanitized as “tradition.”

This legacy created a broken system where:

• Sanitation work is informal, dangerous, and caste-based

• Upper castes avoid it and deny funding to modernize it

• Slums drown in filth, while elites blame “the people”

The result? Modern India is built atop an ancient system that still decides whose hands touch the trash… and whose hands stay clean.

📖 Source: Human Rights Watch – “Cleaning Human Waste: ‘Manual Scavenging,’ Caste, and Discrimination in India”

hrw.org/report/2014/08…

Now ask yourself:
If this is how trash is handled in caste-based systems overseas,
what happens when we import that system into U.S. workplaces, hospitals, and tech companies?

Do we want a society where some groups are expected to do the dirty work…
and others just manage from a distance?

Or should we finally admit that caste - by any name - doesn’t belong here?

https://x.com/ChiefNiftyswell/status/1945283567715803178