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Mike Lee: Put H-1B Program on Pause

Hol

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Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) is calling for a temporary pause on the H-1B migration program amid growing recognition that it is being used to push free-speaking American professionals out of white-collar careers.

“Let’s pause the H1B program,” Lee tweeted amid a growing number of reports about the replacement of American graduates and the displacement of Americans in California, New Jersey, and Texas.

Lee is the latest addition to the growing number of GOP politicians who are talking about the damage that legalized migration actually does to middle-class Americans.

“We have an illegal and legal immigration problem in this country,” Sen. Eric Schmidt (R-MO) said on March 16. “The H-1B & OPT programs are being used to displace American workers and students by incentivizing American employers & institutions to import foreign labor. We need reform now.”

 

DHS Arrests Niece and Grand Niece of Notorious Iranian General, the Pair Living Designer Lifestyles in Los Angeles​

Iranian terror mastermind Maj. Gen. Qasem Soleimani’s niece — who showcased her lavish Los Angeles lifestyle on social media while bashing the U.S. as the “Great Satan” — was arrested by federal authorities over the weekend and will be removed from the U.S. with no chance of ever returning.

Arrested along with Soleimani niece, Hamideh Soleimani Afshar, 47, and subjected to the removal order was her 25-year-old daughter, Sarinasadat Hosseiny.

Announcement of the federal action was made Saturday by the U.S. State Department and Department of Homeland Security (DHS), which dispatched Immigration and Custom Enforcement (ICE) agents to make the arrests in and around Los Angeles.
 
“Let’s pause the H1B program,” Lee tweeted amid a growing number of reports about the replacement of American graduates and the displacement of Americans in California, New Jersey, and Texas.

Let's cancel that program all together and start sending current H-1B workers back to their countries so white collar unemployed or underemployed American citizens can fill the jobs they were educated for.
 

Trump Govt May Revoke Visas of Iranian Elites in the US​

April 7, 2026 - The US government is planning a large-scale visa crackdown targeting Iranian elites. Reports say up to 4,000 visas of Iranian nationals — especially those linked to Iran’s political or economic establishment — are under review for cancellation.

This appears to be part of a broader wartime policy of the administration of US President Donald Trump amid the ongoing conflict in West Asia since February 28, 2026, involving the US, Israel and Iran. The Trump administration says the move is based on national security concerns and alleged links of the selected individuals to Iran’s ruling system.

 

Trump, Rubio Eye Visa Revocations For Nearly 4,000 Iranian Elites Living In America​

Podcaster Katie Miller, who is also the wife of White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller, said on Fox News overnight that the Trump administration and the State Department, under Secretary Marco Rubio, are planning to revoke the visas of thousands of Iranian elites living in the U.S.

"You look at the UK, and look what Keir Starmer has in his own country. You look at the nephew of Khomeini [Ruhollah Khomeini], you look at the niece of Rouhani [Hassan Rouhani]. And you say, why are there so many elites from the Iranian regime being given safety, not only here in America, but in European countries, for so long?" Miller asked while speaking with Fox's Sean Hannity.

Miller then dropped the bombshell: "I know that President Trump and Secretary Rubio are working so diligently to revoke the visas of nearly three to four thousand Iranian elites who currently live in this country. The double standard, not only in their wardrobe, but in the fact that they get to live here in the greatest country in the world with safety and prosperity. Man, you couldn't make it up, Sean, if you tried."

 

DHS Arrests Niece and Grand Niece of Notorious Iranian General, the Pair Living Designer Lifestyles in Los Angeles​

Iranian terror mastermind Maj. Gen. Qasem Soleimani’s niece — who showcased her lavish Los Angeles lifestyle on social media while bashing the U.S. as the “Great Satan” — was arrested by federal authorities over the weekend and will be removed from the U.S. with no chance of ever returning.

Arrested along with Soleimani niece, Hamideh Soleimani Afshar, 47, and subjected to the removal order was her 25-year-old daughter, Sarinasadat Hosseiny.

Announcement of the federal action was made Saturday by the U.S. State Department and Department of Homeland Security (DHS), which dispatched Immigration and Custom Enforcement (ICE) agents to make the arrests in and around Los Angeles.

The leadership of America is the great satan were billionaires like Trump. lol. So like i'm thinking America likely qualifies highly as Babylon the Great candidacy when the tribulation comes. But on this side of the age of grace, we are kind of all fallen. At least America provides haven for those seeking asylum. Asylum that comes with huge Instagram audiences for fame and success to exercise the free speech you have nowhere else in the world to that extent.
 
Many nations, such as New Zealand, allow only immigrants who have valuable skills they need to enter. If anything, it should be for skills our own people can’t offer. Not a free for all open door.

Amen. So this is the one thing that has me wondering if Trump is actually a closet globalist. Its simply just the other side of open borders to mandate un-repatriating America by diluting mass cultural gene pools (eroding core American virtue for other wordly customs) . But a bit more aggressively at the heart of literally taking American family food off of the table. I think the reason why Trump likes those visas is because he wants to be in charge of the sexiest economy in world history. And likely sees H1B visas as a huge part of making the country look fantastic. And gives him a particular glow and hue when looking at himself in the mirror. But it erodes core virtue of America first...and makes it "The Appearance of America First." Hopefully a very loud trend in quick sanding H1Bisms.. Amen.

 
These wealthy ladies were patriots of evil mullahs and visited their family in Iran frequently, according to news reports. They were not here for asylum or to find a way to earn a living.

Hi Hol. I understand. Sometimes i am lazy...lol. And i don't do the best job in wordsmithing to desired effect. Nor help it be something meant to generate an effect. I see i was pretty lazy in my prior post regarding. So it is with all sound heart and conscience i agree 100% with your points. Yes. Amen. Of course. But here's the thing...

I WANT TO MAKE THIS FUN...PLEAESE READ THE FOLLOWING AS BANTER MORE THAN 100% THEOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE--ALTHOUGH IT IS NOT WITHOUT BOTH--meant!
My general "theory" is that God uses quite a bit of providence to convey. Especially to the church. This is just what seems to be going on with what i would otherwise call bozo level comic strip realities playing out before us all. Almost as if like God is into bantering with us posmodernistically. I don't expect others to share this sentiment as it is highly subjective in theory, i agree. But when I look at trends in our world I am often hugely using a filter that looks for general patterns of irony, social artifact like sarcasmic eventure (doesn't that sound kind of cool 👅 ???) and the like. Which those ladies in that atricle fit to a "T."

So, just saying (and i know this is incredibly lazy on my part), but if that is the kind of person I am (not meaning the lazy part but rather the kind of person that comes with cartoonish cosmic attitudinal sculpturing), if that is the anomaly like posture I have shared in our forum regarding (and from the place thereof), the unreasonable expectation on my part might be that i can often speak in "verbal implosure" sentiment, like. Implosure...you know, like when something "implodes" on someone? But like as a cartoon designer wordsmith outfit that just does not quite have all weather proof threads. Another way maybe to say that maybe is: Concepts meant to disintegrate before your eyes even as you might be reading them. Or dissolvable (eco-friendly) sound bites that are just there on the doorstep but never come into the inner consider-worthy rooms of the house. Things the cat is not aloud to bring inside.

Ok--now look up the definition of "Asylum."

1. the protection granted by a nation to someone who has left their native country as a political refugee
2. shelter or protection from danger
3. an institution for the care of people with mental illness

From context, context, context, sure it would be most simply said by me that I was talking about def (1). Or at least def (2). I go out of my way to state tangibles that go with those definitions, such as: "At least America provides haven for those seeking asylum." BUT -- that is kind of where it stops. Because in the very next sentence lampoons asylum as a gold card paradise like membership. So what that is doing there is suggesting that this Asylum concept is "suspect" in stated context, likely. And then kind of what i try to do there too is like a clown move. Where the clown pulls out a handkerchief from his pocket...that kind of NEVER ends...lol. And that handkerchief metaphor be..."the freedom of speech LIKE NOWHERE ELSE IN THE WORLD providing said asylumist safety to pull all the endless hateful rhetoric out of her pocket...using the freedom of speech haven to hopefully end it by supporting Jihad over America.

I know there is a lot going on in those sentences i used in that area. But I was borrowing a handful of circus funhouse mirrors to reflect back those odd shapes we see ourselves in in those things. Again, i apologize for the lazy structure, but i believe it could be argued that my opening sentence: "The leadership of America is the great satan were billionaires like Trump" -- Is Elvira like theater (remember her?). How Elvira made horror movies "fun again?" Now that is super lazy on my part, I realize. And I need to have a talk with myself. Because it drags its feet so very much it kind of undoes any value intended...my bad. Totally my bad. But here is the reconstruction of its intent:

[A] "The leadership" -- meaning the mullahs...the billionaires of Iran that often lived in Dubia or something (those of the Hamas garden variety)
"of" -- please consider how this word can be used...its trickly and super lazy of me here...but it does fit if with a billion tons of grace and pardon
[C] "America is the great satan" -- so this is what is connected to "of." The leaders of the "concept" and "rhetoric" of "America the great satan." Not the leaders of America.
[D] Those guys that call America the great satan were billionaires like the president and American mascot, Trump. We are satan in their eyes because of many things. But one huge one is materialism. Of which they are also so "possessed" by.

So with that as the opening statement, your honor, i plead not the 5th, but that my post and statement enter the scene on the wings of "absurdity." Hopefully hinting at a possible word bottlenecking event, or worse (a linguistic trainwreck ahead warning).

.....

What i do in that post after that is concede with the mullahs that we might indeed be the great satan, but not just yet. Which is kind of like eating an entire elephant as a stick of beef jerky, and while chewing on it still trying to talk with a mouth full of elephant. Saying, "yeah but even if we are the great satan, we are not that just yet," so as to also add, "You meanies." Calling Iran's heads, meanies for me to even have to go as far as to say all that.

Theologically though Hol, i do believe that Ameria likely is Bab the great in the trib. But that is the beast the great satan rides on. So even there, not the same thing...even if it ends up being true. But that is why i would see cartoonish flavor in my post.

What is hopefully the least lazy portion of my post is the overarching overture present in and of it. And i guess this would be the rarely used 2nd person writing style angle. In that post it is not 2nd person proper (like i am saying "hey YOU"), but rather 2nd person, lazy. lol. Or 2nd person "scooping." Like i am providing a huge scoop of intel that could only be stated if America is kind of coocoo for letting it get this bad. And that would be, America as a hub where people can come and use our materialistic life style in earnest while chastising us with it and celebrating the destruction of it (as long as said asylumst be granted "asylum" from the hypocritical fallout). So that would be like an overall takeaway. The overall mad mad world we live in where this is going on like that. And in that sense it is talking to the audience as a 2nd person removal of the 4th wall...and jumps into your lap tickling your chin saying, "Isn't that crazy, like?"

Blessings.
 
From context, context, context, sure it would be most simply said by me that I was talking about def (1). Or at least def (2). I go out of my way to state tangibles that go with those definitions, such as: "At least America provides haven for those seeking asylum."
They weren’t in need of asylum.

From Sinister past of Iranian Gen. Soleimani’s niece in LA — as her ex reveals her wicked secret

“Afshar entered the US on a tourist visa in 2015, gained asylum in 2019, and became a green card holder in 2021.

Her daughter arrived in 2021 on a student visa and secured a green card in 2023. Both had traveled back to Iran multiple times, raising red flags with US authorities.

Afshar had celebrated attacks on US soldiers and military facilities, praised Iran’s Supreme Leader, called America the “Great Satan,” and voiced support for the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, a designated terror organization, according to the State Department.”
 
@Hol I understand dear sister. I'm not trying to distort that. My comment about Asylum was a general reason why so many Iranians have come to this country. I never said those women sought asylum. I used the overwhelming context of the past many decades as to why people left Iran (the harsh dark direction it was taking). Officially it may not be termed asylum, but just a pursuit to have a chance at a reasonable life in contrast to political oppression in general in that country.

So I think we are talking about two different things. I was just making the point that what comes with those even who do seek legit asylum (or opportunity at normal life outside of an horrific political disruption on society...no secret) come to a country where you can be famous for opposing it bringing into it (America) the very reasons most fled Iran for. The irony was more about the US being a very gracious country in contrast to blood thirsty billionaires that are materialists calling America the great satan. It was a political cartoon. Never called ladies asylum seekers. Although in rereading it, I can understand why it might look like that...identifying the ladies with asylumn as a an overall rhetorical device: "as long as said asylumst be granted "asylum" from the hypocritical fallout..." But that was just meant as an ID of the cartoon framing as a whole. Not meaning to attempt calling the ladies ones who sought asylum. Or sought it once and then turned on it. Neither is meant as to why i went where i did. Its kind of like what Rush Limbaugh was famous for...pointing out the absurd by the absurd (or being absurd). I'm no Rush Limbaugh....lol. My point is abstract. But i don't think so abstract as not perhaps see the point i'm underscoring, I believe. Is it?

"The cartoon of women from Iran praising mullahs who chant death to America, while those ladies become the epitome of America (Instagram Fame Dame) shaming America with mullah's or (moolah's) intent." To me that is so hugely a gorgeous picture never to forget. So yeah, just trying to quadruple down on that picture is all.

Blessings.
 
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Thank you brother.
So I think we are talking about two different things.
I was trying to follow your general point about amnesty, but you threw me off. Had you meant to make a general point about Iranians seeking refuge, you could have grabbed this headline:

Trump Govt May Revoke Visas of Iranian Elites in the US​

April 7, 2026 - The US government is planning a large-scale visa crackdown targeting Iranian elites. Reports say up to 4,000 visas of Iranian nationals — especially those linked to Iran’s political or economic establishment — are under review for cancellation.

This appears to be part of a broader wartime policy of the administration of US President Donald Trump amid the ongoing conflict in West Asia since February 28, 2026, involving the US, Israel and Iran. The Trump administration says the move is based on national security concerns and alleged links of the selected individuals to Iran’s ruling system.

Why did you quote the article about General Soleimani’s family who were not seeking asylum?
 
Neither is meant as to why i went where i did. Its kind of like what Rush Limbaugh was famous for...pointing out the absurd by the absurd (or being absurd). I'm no Rush Limbaugh....lol. My point is abstract. But i don't think so abstract as not perhaps see the point i'm underscoring, I believe. Is it?
Teren, we do love one another around here as we submit to God’s plans for us. Some days are better than others. Think of your prayer thread and how we rejoiced when God answered prayers for you

Keep in mind that typing thoughts or posting news to each other is a very limited way to communicate. There are a few basics that may help. First, clean punctuation. I stumble over misspelled words, misused punctuation, and rambling sentences. Second, limit over use of adjectives—or should I modify that to “over use of …zealously amplified uber explanatory puzzle pieces Alice in Wonderland style abstract… adjectives”? Maybe a third thing, pray before posting touchy responses. Write a draft to review asking yourself if there are plain ways to reword what you’re trying to get at; are there mixed metaphors; am I emotionally venting; am I expecting brothers and sisters to show how much they care by engaging in a lengthy explanation?

Anyhow, we love you brother and please keep posting :ring:
 
Thank you brother.

I was trying to follow your general point about amnesty, but you threw me off. Had you meant to make a general point about Iranians seeking refuge, you could have grabbed this headline:

Why did you quote the article about General Soleimani’s family who were not seeking asylum?

Because "irony" bates me like cheese laid for a mouse? Hol that story to me was blistering with radioactive color. The heat the Trump admin is under for the Iran war is pretty thick. It is almost as big at this point as "election fraud" and "Epstein files." Although Epstein probably takes the cake. But there is so much push back toward Trump admin on Iran that a story like you posted serves, I believe, as a very high profile "irony" billboard on steroids. It is because of what that story clashes that drew me so much too it.

We live in a world that is not interested in talking through things as much as we might in leveraging our views. I know social media brings a lot of baggage with it (including how it can really dumb us down), but what I like about social media is it has brought value back to talking things through. At least as much as a social theory. So there is hope for us...lol. But so much of the time what we see is political positioning. Taking on Iran is a huge gamble for any president. Even more so for Trump. Just because he is fashionably hate-able...lol. He gets 24/7 negative coverage. Some deserved. But most I don't think so.

So the article you posted is kind of perfect in capturing the socio-political mood. Here we house two members of the Mullah family that preach hate on America using America Instagram fame builder and living designer lives of excess (the American way) while shamming us for it. lol. Now that is a family portrait, is it not?

Hol, if all i said in my post on that was: "Well at least they can seek asylum in America," or something like that, then I would understand wondering about it. But I said several sentences worth of stuff. As a unit together my sentences were outlining the ideological warfare in America on the Iran issue. And the article you posted was awesome in demonstrating the messed up ideology in America. So it was meant as homage to your article in light of its grand stand push back against bad American ideology. Hate toward Trump and the Iran war. I'm not thrilled we went to war with Iran. But I understand there are likely really good reasons for it.

My apologies for making it into a political cartoon. It was not meant to confuse meaning. Nor to suggest those girls were here for asylum. It is tempting though to pretend if they were, because the story the article tells now anyway would be just as much ironic if they feigned they were here originally seeking asylum. Kind of like a Saturday Night Live skit is the way i was meaning all of this. But not to make light of your article. Rather in praise of its ability to tell the real story.

I feel bad that i kind of made a mess of things here. So sorry dear sister if it was more confusing than it really needed to be. I will be much more careful in the future to be more clear. :heart:
 
Teren, we do love one another around here as we submit to God’s plans for us. Some days are better than others. Think of your prayer thread and how we rejoiced when God answered prayers for you

Keep in mind that typing thoughts or posting news to each other is a very limited way to communicate. There are a few basics that may help. First, clean punctuation. I stumble over misspelled words, misused punctuation, and rambling sentences. Second, limit over use of adjectives—or should I modify that to “over use of …zealously amplified uber explanatory puzzle pieces Alice in Wonderland style abstract… adjectives”? Maybe a third thing, pray before posting touchy responses. Write a draft to review asking yourself if there are plain ways to reword what you’re trying to get at; are there mixed metaphors; am I emotionally venting; am I expecting brothers and sisters to show how much they care by engaging in a lengthy explanation?

Anyhow, we love you brother and please keep posting :ring:

Understood. :heart: Not meant as a test for if i am loved. On that note, possibly, posting knowing i am loved and responding a bit too recklessly. A sloppy gratitude. But mostly reckless abandon in light of knowing i am love most likely. To better show up in reasonable and caring refinement. 👍 ...noted.
 
Understood. :heart: Not meant as a test for if i am loved. On that note, possibly, posting knowing i am loved and responding a bit too recklessly. A sloppy gratitude. But mostly reckless abandon in light of knowing i am love most likely. To better show up in reasonable and caring refinement. 👍 ...noted.
I agree with all of the constructive feedback you’ve been given. I did just want to tell you that I hope all of this doesn’t discourage you. I enjoy reading your shorter posts and your enthusiasm for the topics you write about. Especially your enthusiasm for the Lord.

I just hate when long-time members disappear. You would be greatly missed by me and I know many others on here.
 
I agree with all of the constructive feedback you’ve been given. I did just want to tell you that I hope all of this doesn’t discourage you. I enjoy reading your shorter posts and your enthusiasm for the topics you write about. Especially your enthusiasm for the Lord.

I just hate when long-time members disappear. You would be greatly missed by me and I know many others on here.

Wow. That is so kind. Beyond. Thanks so much for sharing your thoughts on this Cheeky. In my offline life I have conversations that more often then I would like bring me to places to say some pretty raw edgy things meant in care and rebuke. In the past 2 months its been like 10 times. That is way too much. I am still dealing with some from my previous denomination. Even though we see hugely different theologically, I have a great love for them. One in particular has some pretty severe damage from that camp. It's almost like interacting with something half man and half rhino (because of the absolutely incredible skin armor this person puts up). Its depths in thickness is remarkable. It's not thick skin in a don't get hurt easy way. Its thick skin in a way to remove one's self from the things actually being discussed. Out of the 10 times, so far 2 (maybe now going on 3) of them have made huge impacts in this persons life. I can see the Lord using me to some degree. And this person genuinely see the light of day past his enormous defenses. But his return to form out of habit makes it likely we might not last in communication much longer. There is likely too much that is not healthy about it.

I show that to say that I am in no way discouraged by genuine constructive feedback from genuine care. I'm kind of I guess the somewhat opposite of a norm. When i am online i try to tone it down. Because how i can be in person can be pretty intense. Not that i seek to be. Its just the nature of the context i have come out from in my previous denomination. Most people that are wild online would not be so forward in person. I'm kind of like the other way around a bit. i have to be in some general settings offline because of what comes with it. All that to say, I'm like 10 to 100 times more confrontational than the kind concerns and care shared to me on this forum is, in my offline life. I know as intense as that is, my goal is not to hurt and is genuinely out of care...which sometimes God rewards in the temporal. So i would see what occurs here in our family to be extremely reasonable. And appreciated and helpful. :heart:

I believe only 2 things would cause me to leave:

1. If the entire forum came too often to agree with me
2. I would have pushed my forum family too far away for it to be healthy to remain

I'm pretty sure i don't have to worry about number 1. lol. As being individuals, that would be a long shot. And from the love and longsuffering shown to me on this forum, it would likely never get to number 2. But if it did, I would see my self as the cause and would take like a month off and likely try to return and see from there. I've always appreciated your heart Cheeky. Thanks for sharing this. Blessings.
 
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