The ‘Skilled Worker Hoax’: How India’s human-capital scheme took over American jobs

For decades, the American public has been told the nation’s future depended on importing foreign “skilled workers.” They have been fed a narrative claiming their nation’s own citizens were somehow unqualified, uninterested or incapable of filling the very jobs that built their country. But this story was a fabrication, one carefully constructed by economic elites and facilitated by government policy. Behind the curtain stands a foreign government, executing what may be the most expansive and under-acknowledged labor infiltration in modern economic history.

This is not immigration. This is infiltration by policy. A silent economic war is being waged, not with bombs or bullets, but with resumes, fake credentials and weaponized visa loopholes. This is the story of how, through a deliberate national labor export policy, India systematically overtook America’s tech, engineering, defense and research sectors while displacing qualified American citizens in the process.

This is the Skilled Worker Hoax.

India’s national strategy to export human capital is neither accidental nor benign. It is embedded in the mission statements of Indian government institutions and backed by state-supported private enterprises. Subramaniam Ramadorai, then-chairman of India’s National Skill Development Agency, made the country’s objective clear: “To meet the aspirations of the youth and to realize our full potential we have to be ready with a skilled and talented human pool. To skill India is hence a national imperative.”

Yet the skills being marketed to the world are often more myth than merit. A 2011 release by the Confederation of Indian Industry, or CII, a non-governmental business and industry organization that plays a major role in promoting India’s global competitiveness, acknowledged that although 40% of the global population under age 25 lives in India, only 5% of its workforce was considered skilled. By contrast, 85% of the global labor force already had marketable skills. Rajendran Renganathan, a senior CII official, further conceded, “Vocational training is still not seen as the most respectable thing to do after XIIth standard. We need to create employable people, not just educated people.”

Despite these admissions, India aggressively promoted its under-skilled labor force as a global tech powerhouse. Programs like Skill India and Digital India were launched alongside efforts from the National Skill Development Corporation to flood foreign labor markets with Indian nationals. Indian outsourcing giants Tata Consultancy Services, Infosys, Wipro and HCL Technologies, all closely aligned with the Indian state, embedded themselves deep within major U.S. corporations. These firms secured large-scale contracts while effectively taking control of IT systems, hiring pipelines and contract staffing channels.

Once inside, these companies began funneling candidates through falsified documentation, resume mills and diploma factories. Skill centers operating under the All India Council for Technical Education, or AICTE, mass-produced certificates. Coursework was routinely plagiarized from U.S. syllabi. Fake employment histories and staged references became the norm, all coordinated by body shops across India that have flourished under this scheme.

While India institutionalized a labor-export economy, U.S. regulators remained inert. The Department of Labor and the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services approved applications en masse without meaningful scrutiny. American tech giants like Google, Meta, Amazon and Salesforce actively enabled the takeover. Many of these companies established formal partnerships with Indian firms or entered into Memoranda of Understanding with Indian government bodies. Salesforce, for instance, signed a formal MOU with AICTE, pledging to collaborate on skilling initiatives targeting Indian job seekers.

Department of Homeland Security records show that over 70% of all H-1B visas are awarded to Indian nationals, and Indian outsourcing firms remain among the top petitioners every year. These staffing channels are not merit-based. Hiring increasingly relies on internal referrals, caste-based exclusivity and visa dependency. American citizens, veterans and recent STEM graduates are routinely overlooked or excluded entirely.

The Program Electronic Review Management labor certification system, or PERM, which was intended to protect American workers, has been exploited at scale. Companies claim that “no qualified U.S. worker applied,” often while laying off American staff to make room for foreign visa workers. These actions are submitted under penalty of perjury, yet virtually no enforcement or consequence follows.

The role of the Confederation of Indian Industry and All India Council for Technical Education cannot be overstated. These quasi-governmental bodies have signed dozens of strategic agreements with U.S. universities, multinational companies and public institutions. Publicly framed as educational and innovation partnerships, these agreements serve as channels to embed Indian labor in critical infrastructure across the United States. One strategic plan from CII plainly states its mission “to make India the undisputed global leader in the matter of skills and talent” by embedding itself in foreign economies through commercial and policy partnerships.

Universities in the United States have also played a central role in enabling this scheme. Many American schools, eager for high-paying international tuition, now enroll tens of thousands of students from India, many of whom come from unaccredited or fraudulent institutions. These students take advantage of the Optional Practical Training, or OPT, and STEM OPT extensions, bypassing normal work visa caps and displacing American graduates in the process.

Despite claims by tech companies that there is a domestic STEM shortage, the evidence proves otherwise. The United States produces more STEM graduates than there are job openings available. Millions of American workers, including those with top security clearance and advanced degrees, have been locked out of jobs or quietly replaced by visa-dependent workers with fake qualifications, which is reflected in this Government of India’s Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation document.

The threat extends beyond economics. Today, sensitive national defense projects, healthcare systems, critical infrastructure and proprietary technologies are being accessed and maintained by foreign contractors, often based in offshore locations. Data is frequently transmitted across borders without sufficient security protocols. This opens the door to espionage, sabotage and blackmail. If the workers entrusted with protecting U.S. systems are themselves products of fraud, then the entire system is compromised.

This is how nations fall, not by conquest, but by quiet economic displacement.

There is still time to reverse course. Congress must move swiftly to suspend the H-1B visa program and terminate OPT and CPT loopholes. PERM labor certifications issued under false pretenses must be revoked. Fraudulent universities should be decertified. Internal audits must be conducted within U.S. hiring systems to identify and eliminate foreign interference and discriminatory recruitment practices. Most importantly, new laws must guarantee that American citizens are given first right to American jobs, without exception.

Americans must not be afraid to say this. The Indian government is not their friend. It is a foreign power pursuing its own interest. That interest is to replace the American workforce with its own, to capture U.S. industries, and to dominate the future of technology. India is not a passive trade partner. It is executing a deliberate economic strategy designed to displace American labor and dominate critical global sectors through manufactured human capital. Not for partnership, but for control.

This ongoing WND investigation will continue to peel back the layers of a global deception that reshaped America without Americans’ vote, voice or consent. Each report will reveal the players, pipelines and policies that handed over Americans’ future. For those who want to know who stole the American Dream, and how to get it back, stay tuned.