Vance says 9 universities will be investigated over foreign visas

Vice President Vance on Thursday announced a probe into multiple colleges over their use of the J-1 visa program that allows foreign students and researchers to come study or work in the U.S. 

“Elite universities bring in foreigners to undercut the wages of American residents,” Vance said in a press conference regarding fraud and abuse in work visa programs. “There are nine universities in particular we believe merit an investigation.”

The vice president specifically called out Harvard University, Yale University, Stanford University, Brown University, the University of Pittsburgh, the University of California-Davis, Arizona State University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the California Institute of Technology.  

“What we see is when you employ an American worker as a........

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