Texas journalist Sara Gonzales, who exposed the H-1B 'scam' in Texas, says the new $100,000 fee for hiring H-1B workers will not stop corporations from using these visas. The fee started on September 21, 2025, and H-1B registration for fiscal year 2027 opens on March 4. Gonzales said companies save so much by paying these foreign workers less than American workers that they can easily afford the fee. She stated, "The $100,000 visa fee is not enough because what's happening is that these companies are bringing these workers in and they are still hiring them at lower wages than American workers." Gonzales criticized big firms like Microsoft and Southwest that have outsourcing centers in Hyderabad, India, saying, "They are just funneling all of this back into their home country." She also noted that, despite Labor Department rules requiring companies to pay the "prevailing wage" equal to Americans', the US Citizenship and Immigration Services is not rigorously enforcing this. Gonzales warned, "The whole system stinks. The whole thing is corrupt. America loses in every aspect of it, and we have to fix it." Her investigation led Texas to freeze H-1B hiring in state agencies and universities and launch probes against three firms that hired H-1B workers. Gonzales added a sharp observation on the bigger picture, saying, "On one hand, there is AI and then America is importing people."