Far-right streamer Nick Fuentes on Trump’s new H-1B visa fees: “They just lied. ... Howard Lutnick is a clown and frankly so is Trump.”
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From the September 25, 2025, edition of America First, streamed on Cozy.tv
NICK FUENTES (HOST): But of course, we should not be surprised that a few days later, it turned out that the entire policy was a lie. It wasn’t 48 hours later that we found out that no, it was not a $100,000 per year fee. It was a $100,000 one-time fee. It’s a one-time fee, which defeats the whole purpose. Because the thing about H-1B is that it’s renewable, you can renew it every year for many years. You renew it every three years and after six years, you get eligible for a green card. Now over six years or longer, do you think an employer would find it worthwhile to invest at the outset $100,000? Of course they’re willing to do that. $100,000 divided by six is nothing compared to $100,000 times six.
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And what’s particularly egregious about this is that they literally just straight up lied. Howard Lutnick said four or five times on Friday, “It’s per year. It’s per year. It’s $100,000 per year.” Then we saw the text of the order and they said it’s not per year, it’s one time. So they just lied. This guy’s a clown. Howard Lutnick is a clown and frankly so is Trump. That’s a lie.
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They lied about another aspect of it as well. When we found the text of the executive order we found that not only is it not a per year fee, it’s a one-time fee, we also found out that it doesn’t apply to the existing H-1B visa holders. So there’s hundreds of thousands of H-1B visa holders currently in America. They authorize 140,000 per year and that cap is met every single year for decades. Every single year for decades, 140,000 new H-1B visas are given out and those accumulate so we’ve got tons of H-1B workers currently in America, currently taking and sitting on good tech jobs that Americans cannot have, getting what should be good high paying jobs. This executive order doesn’t apply to them. It only applies to any new H-1B visa holders, any new H-1B visa applicants.
So it doesn’t apply to the hundreds of thousands of existing foreign labor. It only applies to the new applicants. And for the new applicants it’s not yearly, it’s one time. So while we’re flooding America with cheap foreign labor, well, Silicon Valley just has to pay a little bit more money to the federal government.