Once again, Indian media have set their sights on an American citizen, this time a veteran who’s been directly harmed by the broken H-1B system, for nothing more than exercising his First Amendment rights. The article published by M9 News, “Legal H1B Tweaks Could Shake Indian Economy,”, isn’t journalism; it’s foreign gaslighting. The piece mocks the voice of an American patriot, Virgil Bierschwale, for daring to say what millions of displaced Americans know to be true: our immigration system is broken, rigged and ruthlessly exploited.
Nowhere in the article is there any acknowledgment of Bierschwale’s service to this country, his sacrifice, or his relentless efforts to inform and empower Americans through his work and his website Guest Worker Visas, Instead, the authors trivialize his candidacy for U.S. Senate, paint him as irrelevant and attempt to silence his warnings simply because he is not a sitting politician. This is not a minor oversight. It’s a deliberate omission, a calculated attempt to erase the voice of a veteran who continues to fight for his fellow citizens long after his military service.
Rather than engage with the substance of his arguments or confront the economic devastation wrought by the H-1B visa pipeline, the article reduces Bierschwale to a failed candidate, as if only the politically connected or corporate elites have the right to speak on behalf of Americans. The Indian media’s message is clear: Americans should be ashamed to defend their own jobs, while foreign interests are free to demand whatever serves them, no matter the cost to the people who built this nation.
This article says more about India than it does about Virgil
“For many Indian professionals, the American dream wasn’t meant to be stalled at every turn…caught in a system that seems more focused on paperwork than on people.”
The ongoing narrative that the American dream is somehow being “stalled” for Indian professionals by paperwork and procedural requirements is a glaring misdirection, one that conveniently ignores the devastation the H-1B system and offshoring have inflicted on millions of Americans. The real imbalance isn’t bureaucratic red tape; it’s the decades-long displacement of American workers, the shuttering of careers and the hollowing out of entire industries as jobs are systematically funneled overseas or handed to foreign visa holders.
What these complaints about “paperwork” truly reveal is a frustration that America is finally, albeit slowly, demanding basic protections for its own citizens. These regulations exist for a reason: to protect American workers from exploitation, discrimination and the relentless march of corporate interests willing to replace them at the lowest cost. When Indian media and their advocates bemoan paperwork as an obstacle, what they are really lamenting is that it is becoming harder to game the system and bypass the very safeguards designed to keep America’s workforce strong.
Indian professionals, or any foreign nationals for that matter, are not entitled to American jobs and they are not entitled to a shortcut around the laws and procedures established by this country. Every form, every process, every layer of oversight is there because of the very real harm inflicted on American families, harm that never seems to warrant a single sentence in these foreign editorials.
For the millions of Americans who have been laid off, sidelined, or forced to train their own foreign replacements, paperwork is the last line of defense. Their livelihoods, not the minor inconveniences of well-paid guest workers, should be the priority in every immigration and employment debate. If the system is finally asking tougher questions and demanding more scrutiny, it’s a sign that America is waking up and that is exactly what those who have profited from our complacency now fear most.
America’s policies should serve its own people first. The sense of “disconnection” that foreign media laments is not the result of unfair paperwork, but the long-overdue insistence that American jobs are for American workers and no amount of foreign lobbying or manufactured outrage will ever change that fundamental right.
“The issue at hand goes beyond just visas. It’s about who gets to shape the narrative around talent, opportunity and economic exchange. When voices like his start to take the lead, it becomes more than just policy—it becomes personal.”
It’s telling that Indian media insists the H-1B debate is about “who gets to shape the narrative around talent, opportunity and economic exchange” as if Americans, in their own country, are somehow out of line for demanding a say in their own future. The reality is, for years, only one side has shaped this narrative: foreign governments, offshore lobbyists and global corporations eager to profit from cheap labor, all while sidelining the voices of displaced American workers.
When an American like Virgil Bierschwale, who has actually felt the pain of these policies, dares to speak up, suddenly the discussion is “personal” and the foreign media establishment scrambles to silence him. The hypocrisy is staggering. Indian officials and business leaders have had a megaphone in Washington for decades, openly lobbying for more access to U.S. jobs and more favorable policies, never once apologizing for putting their own interests first. But when an American patriot does the same for his own people, that’s portrayed as out of bounds.
Let’s be clear: Americans not only have the right, but the obligation, to shape the policies and the narrative that affect their country’s future. If that makes things “personal,” it’s because the economic survival of millions of American families is personal. The real injustice is that it ever took this long for their voices to finally lead the conversation.
America belongs to Americans. No amount of foreign lobbying, media spin, or elite hand-wringing will ever change that. If Indian officials and their media surrogates insist on shaping U.S. policy, they should at least admit that Americans have every right and every reason to demand that their government put its people first.
As Virgil himself told me after reading the article: “Never once did they mention I wrote that tweet because Americans are being discriminated against in America by Indians living in America and managing American businesses.”
That is the real story here and it’s one Americans will never be ashamed for telling.
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