ROOKE: Visa Loophole Quietly Crushing Young Americans

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There’s a trend in public commentary to attribute young Americans’ openness to socialist or communist ideas to laziness or educational indoctrination. The point is to dismiss generational economic complaints as entitlement or a poor work ethic. However, such characterizations irresponsibly ignore the truth about what’s happening to our sons and daughters.

Data on labor market dynamics, particularly the role of H-1B visa policies in constraining white-collar job access and wages for young Americans, provide a better explanation for the shift. Gen Z and Millennials face a structurally challenging environment. Net job creation in the U.S. has been anemic, to say the least. College degrees, especially in STEM-related fields, continue to rise. Combine the degree inflation with limited opportunities for recent graduates and add on legal immigration programs like H-1B visas, and you’ll get the suppression and displacement in tech, engineering, etc., that young Americans are unjustly facing.

U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) revisions for 2025 confirmed that the U.S. economy added only about 181,000 non-farm payroll jobs for the entire year. This means, on average, the U.S. added roughly 15,000 new jobs per month. This marked the weakest annual performance since 2003. Even more concerning is that most of the jobs created were concentrated in healthcare and construction, while white-collar jobs were either flat or saw negative growth after the revisions.

🇺🇸 🚨 BREAKING: U.S. job numbers revised DOWN by over 1 million jobs, the largest annual revision in decades. The BLS initially reported 584,000 jobs added in 2025. The revised number? Just 181,000, the weakest year for job growth since 2020. Key numbers: → 1,029,000 jobs… pic.twitter.com/S2ObxmHacE — DD Geopolitics (@DD_Geopolitics) February 15,........

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