Harmeet Dhillon, the Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights at the US Department of Justice, has taken cognisance of an IT firm in the country allegedly “discriminating against Americans” by issuing a hiring post strictly addressed to H-1B visa holders.

Former West Virginia State Delegate Derrick Evans, who also describes himself as a “former Jan 6th Political Prisoner,” took to his X profile this week to shed light on a bombshell report by The Washington Free Beacon. The article titled “‘No US Citizens’: Meet the IT Firms Discriminating Against Americans” particularly pointed the finger at LanceSoft, an employment agency company headquartered in Herndon, Virginia.

“LanceSoft is an IT staffing firm committed to “diversity, equality, & inclusivity.” They just posted a job for $60/hr based in Santa Clara, CA,” he wrote on X. “The only issue. The job is ONLY for people with an H1B Visa. The ad explicitly states NO US CITIZENS are eligible…for a job in America.”

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The Trump-appointed official thanked Evans for flagging the issue. Re-sharing the post on her official X profile, she reassured concerned Americans that they had a dedicated team working on such cases, and that she would look into this one too.

Dhillon said the such probes involved their collaborations with US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (USEEOC), the Department of Labor (USDOL) and the White House.

Thereafter, the US AAG re-directed the attention to her own official division in the Trump administration, and wrote, “Did I mention the Civil Rights Division is hiring, including for lawyers to do more of this work? Check out USAjobs.gov!”

Company’s hiring post ‘discriminating’ against American workers and favouring H-1B holders?

In his Free Beacon article, reporter Aaron Sibarium noted that a job advertisement shared by LanceSoft explicitly turned its back on American citizens while preferentially directing its focus onto H-1B visa holders. “Candidate must hold an active H1B visa,” the since-deleted alleged post said. “No USC/GC for this role,” the recruiter added, referring to US citizens and green card holders.

Sibarium further accused the IT staffing firm of scoring public contracts by identifying as a certified Minority Business Enterprise, which strives to “be as diverse as the clients we partner with.”

As it turns out, LanceSoft wasn’t the only company to be name-dropped in the report. The Free Beacon writer went on to red-flag multiple other such IT firms that were purportedly aiming to recruit visa holders but not US citizens.

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US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Chair Andrea Lucas has since addressed the matter on her social media profile as well. She was also quoted in the Free Beacon report, saying, “A shocking number of covered entities, especially recruiters, continue to express explicit preferences for visa guest workers . . . In the shadows of under-enforcement, this type of discrimination has festered.”

“No more shadows. It’s now a new day and the Trump administration is shining a spotlight on this discrimination through both public awareness campaigns, employer education, and robust enforcement, from @USEEOC to @USDOL, @CivilRights, and other federal agency partners,” she added, tagging US Secretary of Labor Lori Chavez-DeRemer, Deputy Secretary of Labor Keith E Sonderling and Dhillon.


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