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The Labor Department opened a fraud investigation into nine universities, Harvard, Yale, Stanford, Brown, Pittsburgh, UC Davis, Caltech, Arizona State, and MIT, over their use of J-1 exchange-visitor visas. Vice President JD Vance, announcing it, accused them of undercutting American researchers' wages. Subpoenas have been served; no findings announced yet.

1. Oct 8, 2026Vance named the nine universities under investigation, Harvard, Yale, Stanford, Brown, Pittsburgh, UC Davis, Caltech, Arizona State, and MIT: "Elite universities bring in foreigners to undercut the wages of American residents." Source ↗
2. Oct 8, 2026Vance said these schools "are employing J-1 visas for federally funded grants at a rate of 61 percent" against a 38 percent national average, calling it evidence they "are using them to undercut the wages of American grad students and American researchers, and it simply has to stop." Source ↗
3. Oct 8, 2026Labor Department Inspector General Anthony D'Esposito said "subpoenas have been served" and "investigations are underway," warning that a university "breaking the law to save a dollar while exposing American research to a foreign adversary" would be committing "institutional betrayal." Source ↗
4. Oct 8, 2026 · LatestArizona State said it "educates more stem majors than any other university" and has "hired the talent needed to perform these functions and done so in complete compliance with existing United States policy and law." Brown, Stanford, Yale, MIT, Pittsburgh, and UC Davis each said they would comply with the subpoenas. Source ↗

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