A Fox News opinion piece argues that America's legal immigration system, not just illegal immigration, is harming American workers, and calls for a complete overhaul of programmes such as H-1B visas and Optional Practical Training (OPT). The author contends that these schemes, ostensibly designed to bring in specialised talent, are being used by employers to replace US workers with cheaper foreign labour, and frames this as a systemic design flaw rather than an unintended consequence.

The piece cites the H-1B skilled-worker visa and the OPT scheme, which allows international students to work in the US after graduation, as key mechanisms enabling this substitution of the domestic workforce. It also references a separate Trump administration investigation into H-1B visa fraud, mentioned by Federal Trade Commission chairman Andrew Ferguson, who says the probe aims to ensure the H-1B programme serves its intended purpose of bringing in specialised labour rather than displacing American employees.