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DOJ Gains Oversight of OpenAI's Foreign Worker Hiring

Is OpenAI exploiting American workers by favoring foreign labor or is restricting skilled immigration crippling U.S. innovation?

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DOJ Gains Oversight of OpenAI's Foreign Worker Hiring

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Above: The OpenAI logo displayed on a mobile phone screen with the U.S. flag in the backdrop. Image credit: Ismail Aslandag/Anadolu/Getty Images

The Spin

Right narrative

OpenAI hid jobs from qualified Americans, quietly funneling them to visa-dependent foreign labor — the same rigged playbook Big Tech has run for decades. Every buried listing is a stolen shot at prosperity for a citizen, every discounted visa wage a knife in the middle class. This is plain exploitation, robbing America's own workforce blind.

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Tightening the door on skilled foreign talent starves American institutions. Rural hospitals lose doctors, universities lose researchers, startups lose engineers and the "talent tariff" simply pushes hiring to Canada, India and China instead. DOJ-imposed constraints on recruitment just hand America's innovation edge to its competitors.

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