THE UGLY TRUTH: America is the only country on this list that doesn’t put its own citizens first. I compared citizen-hiring policies across 23 nations. 22 of them protect their citizen workers. One doesn’t. Guess which one! 🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia is moving 340,000+ jobs into citizen hands by 2028. Sales, marketing, procurement, engineering: quotas of 30% to 70% for Saudis. Some professions are 100% Saudi-only. 🇦🇪 The UAE fines companies about $2,700 a month for every job they fail to fill with an Emirati. 95% of companies complied. 🇨🇦 Canada cut foreign-worker permits by 22,000 this year and caps low-wage foreign hires at 10% of a workforce. 🇬🇧 The UK raised the bar to degree-level jobs, raised the English requirement, and raised the employer penalty 32%. 🇺🇸 And America? ❌ No citizen hiring quota ❌ No national labor-market test for most work visas ❌ No incentive to hire a qualified citizen first ❌ The $100,000 H-1B fee? Blocked in court ❌ The “reformed” H-1B lottery? It rewards the employer that pays the foreign worker more. The citizen isn’t even in the equation. ❌ A company can lay off ready and able American citizens and still file for H-1Bs. The new executive order adds “scrutiny.” It doesn’t add a ban. Here’s the ugliest part: We count race. We count sex. We don’t count citizenship, the one number that tells us whether American jobs stay American. Saudi Arabia counts. The UAE counts. Canada counts. America doesn’t even look. You can’t fix what you refuse to measure. Turn this around by taking action in the next thread. 👇 Transparency First. Accountability Follows. - JVB -