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Did H-1Bs Rise ‘Multi 100%’ Under Biden? Louder with Crowder Claim
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Louder with Crowder said there was "a multi 100% increase in H1 B's" under Biden. We rate it mostly-false — truth score 0.20, confidence 0.85.
USCIS petition approvals went from 426,710 in FY2020 to 399,402 in FY2024: a 6% decline, not a several-hundred-percent rise.
The claim comes from the 8 September 2026 episode "Trump Lays Down Gauntlet As Canada Secretly Starts Military Collaboration with China," at 1:09:25, inside a monologue about whether the two parties differ on immigration.
We steelman it first. One H-1B series genuinely…
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