Here’s a detailed breakdown of the key proposals in Rep. Chip Roy’s American White-Collar Worker Jobs Act of 2026 (H.R. __, introduced yesterday, June 4, 2026). The bill reforms the H-1B visa program through targeted amendments to the Immigration and Nationality Act. It does not pause or eliminate the program entirely but tightens it significantly to prioritize American workers. It builds on Rep. Eli Crane’s (R-AZ) End H-1B Visa Abuse Act. Core Reforms • Ends the random lottery system 
Replaces it with a wage-based and merit-driven selection process. Employers must now meet strict new Labor Condition Application (LCA) requirements (detailed below) focused on higher wages, actual skill needs, and good-faith recruitment of Americans first. • Requires employers to prove good-faith recruitment of American workers first 
Employers must: • Advertise the job on a new Secretary of Labor website. • Offer the position to equally or better-qualified U.S. workers. • Take industry-standard recruitment steps. • Certify there are not sufficient able, willing, and qualified U.S. workers available. • Show the job will not adversely affect wages and working conditions of similarly employed Americans. • Bans companies with recent layoffs from hiring H-1B workers
No H-1B approval if the employer has laid off U.S. workers in the same occupational classification within the prior year.
H-1B workers also cannot displace any U.S. workers (directly or indirectly). • Imposes a true prevailing wage floor 
Employers must pay H-1B workers the higher of: • The actual wage paid to other employees with similar experience/qualifications, or • The 75th percentile wage for the occupation in the local area.
(This directly targets wage suppression.) • Caps H-1B workers at 5% of an employer’s U.S. workforce
Prevents outsourcing/body shops from flooding a company with foreign labor. • Ends H-1B as a pathway to permanent residency (green cards) 
Adds explicit language requiring H-1B visa holders to maintain a residence in a foreign country which they have no intention of abandoning (dual-intent presumption is removed). Repeals prior provisions that facilitated adjustment of status. • Eliminates the Optional Practical Training (OPT) program
Removes the post-graduation work authorization for foreign STEM students, which has served as a major backdoor to H-1B and eventual green cards. The bill also reasserts that only Congress (not executive agencies) can authorize employment for nonimmigrants. • Strengthens worker qualifications and protections • H-1B applicants must hold a bachelor’s degree (or higher) from a university equivalent to U.S. standards in a directly related field, plus any required licenses. • Workers cannot be forced to pay visa fees, housing, bonds, or penalties for leaving the job. • Bans “preferred vendor” lists or other restrictions that favor foreign labor. • Adds enforcement teeth • Secretary of Labor gets expanded investigation, subpoena, and audit powers. • Fines up to $100,000 per violation (inflation-adjusted). • Employers can be banned from the H-1B program for up to 10 years. • Displaced U.S. workers gain a private right to sue employers in federal court. • Additional guardrails • Applications are public (except personal identifiers). • No approval if local unemployment in the occupation exceeds 2%. • No H-1B approvals during strikes/lockouts. • Reasserts congressional authority over all employment authorization for aliens (limits future executive workarounds). The bill is very new, so it has not yet been assigned a final H.R. number or referred to committee. Full text is available on Rep. Roy’s website. Supporters (including the Federation for American Immigration Reform, Immigration Accountability Project, and Citizens for Renewing America) praise it for closing loopholes that have allowed displacement and wage suppression. Thoughts?

The Nutcracker ballet playing in the background was perfect….

Colombia just held their election. They require voter ID and use paper ballots. They hand-count the votes of each station one by one. No machines or mail-in ballots due to security concerns. ~24 million votes. It was all done in a couple hours.

Creator of C , Bjarne Stroustrup: AI-generated code isn't ready — it generates more bugs, more bloat, more security holes, and is nearly impossible to validate "senior developers are already retiring rather than deal with it" The problem is that even a small prompt change can shift the entire codebase in unpredictable ways

Jesus Christ, are there ANY children left in Gaza who Israel hasn’t killed?….

20 years and still relevant today 🤣

TV used to be funny. 👀💀😂

Israel and Zionists literally going crazy right now 😭🤣😂 This published on YouTube with 20m followers channel, just on YouTube Entire internet going viral with this today

Norm MacDonald never missed.

The Iran War is rapidly spiraling out of control. It should have never happened. It’s time to go back to America First and drill baby drill. That’s what we campaigned on and the American people voted for.

American Conservative co-founder Pat Buchanan has been saying it for years: "The Congress of the United States is Israeli-occupied territory."

Still a classic… how is it that he’s the only one making sense and thinking logically tell you everything

Nothing much, just Milton Friedman casually explaining in the clearest terms possible fundaments of society that all of our leaders routinely forget/ignore.

A top 10 countdown of the most beautiful female musicians of the 80’s. Who’s #1 though?!