Walmart pauses hiring H-1B visa recipients in wake of Trump reforms

Walmart confirmed this week that it had paused hiring employees with H-1B visas in the wake of President Donald Trump's reforms to the program.

“Walmart is committed to hiring and investing in the best talent to serve our customers, while remaining thoughtful about our H-1B hiring approach,” the company confirmed to multiple outlets.

Walmart currently has more than 2,000 employees with H-1B visas, CNN Business reported.

The visa program has long been in the crosshairs of conservative immigration hawks, with many pointing to alleged rampant fraud and its use by tech employers to replace American workers with less expensive foreign labor.

Trump imposed a $100,000 fee on H-1B applications in September, saying the program "created to bring temporary workers into the United States to perform additive, high-skilled functions, but it has been deliberately exploited to replace, rather than supplement, American workers with lower-paid, lower-skilled labor."

Ben Whedon is the Chief Political Correspondent at Just the News. Follow him on X.