And we are going to forget about this

one for today. We are going to get to

work. We're going to start to get those

numbers. They can't get an interview.

They cannot get an interview. So,

there's something going on here.

Yesterday, a mailman shows up to my

house and they have a letter to drop

off. It's certified mail. Now, usually

that's not good news. The letter was

from the Department of Justice. It was

about the discrimination charge I filed

against Figma. The letter said, "Yeah,

we got it and we don't care, so we're

not going to take it forward." Which is

confusing because just yesterday there

was a tweet by Har Dylan of the

Department of Justice, the same entity

that sent me this letter, saying they

are rooting out on institutions that

disproportionately hire H-1Bs as opposed

to American workers. Same department,

same enforcement arm, very different

messaging between what you see on

Twitter in the hype cycle and what

they're actually doing or not doing. So

today we're going to read the letter,

look at the law, talk about why there's

this disconnect between what Hermit

Dylan is tweeting and what her

institution is actually doing. And I'm

going to give you some strategies on how

you can help. Let's go through the

letter. The salient points are right in

the opening volley here. This is from

the immigrant and employee rights

section of the Department of Justice.

and they say, "I alleged a violation of

the anti-discrimination provision of the

Immigration and Nationality Act, section

8, subsection 1324B. Based on the

investigation, we are dismissing your

charge and will not file a complaint

with the Office of the Chief

Administrative Hearing Officer. So, we

heard you. We're just not going to look

into it." I have my email up right here

so I can get through the dates. I

applied to Figma on July 29th and the

rejection email landed August 14th. I

filed this IER complaint on August 15th,

the day after receiving the rejection

email. And I want to talk a little bit

about the qualifications for this job.

This was for a software engineering

manager job because the elephant in the

room is going to be, well, Dr. J, you

just weren't qualified and they just

tossed you out. Let's walk through it.

So it was for an engineering manager

posting. The requirement was 2 years of

experience in engineering leadership. By

the point I applied, I had four. Not

only four, I was currently when I

applied a director at American Express,

responsible for the work of 100 software

engineers. And prior to that, I was

senior software engineering manager at

Anderil, which is like the hottest

defense tech company right now. Well

qualified on all of the tech, mostly

front-end stack, really my bread and

butter. I've been doing this for over a

decade now and I received no email back

in the inter room. I didn't receive a

call with the hiring manager. Radio

silence other than the automated

rejection email 2 weeks later. So, this

isn't an HR complaint. That's not what I

did when I filed with the DOJ. This is a

federal immigration related accusation

of a large company. It's part of our

discrimination law. So in the letter

remember it referenced of the

immigration and nationality act section

8 subsection 1324b

and that section covers citizenship

status and national origin

discrimination. That statute is far

narrower than most people think and that

is very important to understand. So who

is Har Dylan and why should we care

about what she tweets? Well, she is a

bigwig at the Department of Justice. She

is the assistant attorney general for

civil rights. She is a Republican, or at

least she calls herself that publicly.

And she made waves on a lot of

conservative media, including Tucker

Carlson's show before she had the

position, saying about how she was

really going to crack down on H-1B abuse

in this country. And if anything, H-1B

abuse has gotten worse. And the current

administration, Har Dylan included,

haven't really done much about it. I

mean, if you work in tech, you've seen

it before where you apply to these jobs

and you get rejected same day, two weeks

later, radio silence, you're

wellqualified for the position,

overqualified even, and you just don't

hear anything back. You don't even get a

recruiter screen where they kind of do

the dance with you to make it seem like

they're considering you, but they're not

really considering you. Not even that

level level of effort, just an automated

rejection. I'm not alone in this because

I know a number of engineers. It's

growing it seems like every month that

are elite engineers. They have worked at

very high caliber tech outfits including

fang companies, including AI companies

that got laid off. And it's not that

they can't get another competitive job

that's highaying like the one that they

got laid off from. They can't get an

interview. They cannot get an interview.

So there's something going on here. So,

Department of Justice isn't making a

meaningful impact on boots on the ground

in our industry or in other industries

for that matter, but they're tweeting

about it. Okay? They're tweeting instead

of actually doing anything about it,

which seems like a trend with the

current president, the current

administration is they tweet a lot and

they actually do very little for the

American citizen. Harit Dylan tweets

here. It is deeply problematic that

federal funding flows to institutions

that disproportionately hire H-1B visa

workers over American workers. The

Justice Department will continue to root

out this problem and protect employment

civil rights of Americans. Really, Har,

it's problematic. What does that even

mean? I hate that word. It's

problematic. So, there's not even a

strong stance here. She's just saying we

kind of don't like what's going on and

hey, we're going to do something about

it. What are you going to do? When are

you going to do it? How are you going to

track the results of what you're going

to do? This is the problem not only with

our current administration, but with the

government fighting for the rights of

American citizens lately is there is no

accountability. It's all these handwavy

tweets, this grandiose language. But

none of this would fly in a corporation.

Can you imagine? Imagine that Har Dylan

is working at IBM. Let's imagine for a

minute that Harmy Dylan is working at

Nvidia. Okay, she's up there in the

company. She's responsible for a new AI

kind of machine learning chip that

they're developing. And Jensen goes to

her in one of his famous large group

staff meetings. He calls on her. He

says, "Har, what you got cooking for our

new X series of chips that you're

responsible for?" And Harit says, "Well,

the process is problematic. It's

problematic and we're going to do

everything we can to resolve it." Do you

think she'd get canned? If I was Jensen,

I'd fire her. I know Jensen would fire

somebody like that because that does not

fly in the corporate world. It's when

are you going to do it? How are you

going to do it? How are you going to

measure it? And how are you going to

tell if it's a success or not? And

instead, we get handwavy tweets about

it's problematic. We don't like it. And

hey, we're going to do something about

it. It gets me pissed off. That's why

I'm wearing the Scorched Earth hat

today. You can grab that abandon online.

That's my buddy's hat company. Go get

one of these hats. I love it. It was

perfect for this video, so I had to wear

it. Back to it. Despite that tweet, I'll

give everyone a fair shot. So, I looked

into the numbers, and we don't have

exact numbers on this, but we do have

rough, directionally correct numbers

that really tell us the whole picture of

what's going on. So, we estimate that

Figma grew by about 600 employees

throughout 2025. That estimate might be

a little high, so we'll call it 500.

Then, I looked into how many H-1B

petitions they filed, which we do

actually have very good records on. They

filed 46. And you want to know how many

of those were approved? 45. Only only

one got denied. Only one got denied. Um,

so I assume that what went on for this

role and other roles is they did a labor

market test, which is what they call

when they have a fake posting where they

never intend on hiring an American

citizen or giving an American citizen a

chance at any of these roles. They

solicited applications. Maybe they

called one or two and then they

sponsored a foreign worker to take the

position. And maybe that's not what

happened in this circumstance. Maybe you

think I'm just sour grapes. But I think

the stats would bear me out. I have

great experience. I have tons of

experience. I was well qualified, highly

qualified for that role. It was

directionally aligned with what I was

doing at the time and what I was

targeting during that job hunt. By the

best numbers we're able to find, Figma

filled 25% of their jobs with H-1B

sponsored workers last year. So, there's

already a one in4 shot that you applied

for one of those roles. I don't know,

maybe, maybe not. But the crazy thing is

to me is that with those numbers, with a

one in four shot, they didn't even look

into it. They just said, "We're just

we're not going to look into it. We

don't care. We don't care enough to pick

up the phone and call Figma and be like,

"Hey, are you doing anything bad over

there?" Nothing. Nothing. just decided

we're we're all good. We're going to

dismiss it. Here's where the power

actually shows up and here's how you can

fight for the American worker. The

system doesn't move because something

feels unfair. The system moves when

legal thresholds are met sometimes. In

reality, it's a lot different. All of

these politicians, including Harit

Dylan, that claim to be fighting for the

American worker, including Donald Trump,

who flipped off a factory worker

recently, which is really just an

encapsulation of how our government

feels about the working class lately.

Really, what these people run on is not

legal thresholds. It's not legal

thresholds. It's not unfair. It's

publicity, right? It's publicity. How is

Harat sort of structuring her persona?

She's going on Tucker Carlson is a

talking head. She's tweeting. She's

trying to get likes. She's trying to get

retweets. And so these people run on

publicity. They run on public sentiment.

And so what you can do to help to help

yourself and to help the American middle

class, the American worker, is you can

file these petitions every time you

apply to a company during your next job

hunt that is known to sponsor a high

number of H-1Bs. Not, you know, hey, we

need a rocket scientist that does this

specialized thing to come over. You you

know what I'm talking about? like the

American Expresses, the JP Morgan

Chasees of the world. Whenever you apply

for a company that has high H-1B

stats, what you need to do is a couple

of things. You need to file with the IER

department of the US Department of

Justice, just like I've done.

Eventually, that resource drain will

make it very, very painful. This would

had to be sent by certified mail. I

moved so it had to be sent to a new

address. They had to tie up, let's see

who the person was, Varda Hussein's time

with looking into this. That's the

acting deputy special counsel on this

case. We need to tie them up with an

influx of process. If they won't do

their job, we need to make them do their

job. The other thing you can do is what

I'm doing on this channel, and I

encourage you to do the same in whatever

capacity you you are able to do, is

speak up about this publicly. Even if

you have a faceless Twitter account or a

faceless YouTube channel where you post

content, you need to be tweeting at Har

Dylan. You need to be tweeting at the

Department of Justice. You need to be

tweeting at pus about this. We need to

get a critical mass going so that we

shape public sentiment to get people to

realize that this is a toxic situation

for everybody involved. As I've spoken

about in my other videos, it's obviously

toxic for the American worker because it

drives our wages down. If I was from a

less prosperous country and I wanted to

improve my life, I would do everything

in my power to come to America. This

fault does not lie on the actual

employees coming over here to the

country. I want to be very clear on

that. But in doing so, in doing so, in

improving your situation, moving to a

better country because the US is the

best country in the world. You can fight

me about that in the comments, but it's

absolutely true. I wouldn't want to live

in any other country than the US. People

come here to make a better life for

themselves, but they are willing to

take less, accept less

when they when they come here. And if

they're willing to do that, if you have

the employee whose nationality, whose

status is tied to a job, that's an

inherently unhealthy power dynamic where

the boss can say, "You got to work 80

hours a week. You got to work weekends.

You got to work holidays because if you

don't and I fire you, you lose your

health insurance entirely. There's no

safety net for you. And if you don't

find a new job in that scramble period,

you got to go back. You got to go back.

The dream is over for you. That's

inherently exploitative towards H-1Bs.

If we bring an H-1B into this country,

we should support them and give them

everything they need to be successful.

But instead, they're treated like

secondass citizens and tasked with

immense amount of work. impossible

deadlines and just exploited, exploited,

abused. That's the best word I saw for

it at AMX is abuse. Abuse of those

people. And then on the American citizen

site, it drives down wages. And then all

of a sudden there becomes an expectation

that hey, you you are on call 24/7 or

you you have to work weekends too

because if not, we will just sponsor an

H-1B because the Department of Justice,

the president is not imputing really any

penalty for doing so. A couple of you

have called out in the comments that

there's a $100,000

H1B fee being instituted, but look look

into that. We'll do another video on

that. That is not like the slam dunk win

for this system that you think it is.

It's a onetime fee. There's more to come

on this story. It's not over. You see,

during that period of job hunting in

July and August, this was, by the way,

at AMX when I was told that one of my

teams would move to India and I would

have to lay off the American workers on

the American team that would be replaced

by an India team. I was given no choice

in the matter. This is when I started

applying to jobs on that job hunt. I

applied to a lot and four of them

including Figma were companies that had

very high H-1B to American citizen

ratios. So I filed three of these other

reports. So we'll see as they come back.

This is the first one I've got. We'll

see as they come back. I'll do an update

video on each and as uh help to the

Department of Justice because apparently

they can't do this. they're they're

incapable of pulling numbers of doing

the research like we are on this

channel. As a sign of good faith for

working with the Department of Justice,

I will begin to compile numbers for

those companies and I'll do a video on

each company. do a video on each company

that they dismiss a case for to help

them out because I agree Harmy Dylan

this is problematic and I am an engineer

so I build things and I do things in the

world and I've worked in a corporate

environment for a long time so I know

that when I build things there are

metrics there are deliverables I'm on

the hook for it I'm not a gvy that can

just do whatever all day and just get

reelected based on a tweet so I am going

to dig into the research I am going to

do my job to get you those numbers to

get you those facts and figures on this

channel on h1bexposed.te

my website where I post H-1B figures for

companies that are obviously abusing the

system and we are going to forget about

this one for today. We are going to get

to work. We're going to start to get

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