Dear Secretary Bessent @SecScottBessent, My name is Everett Stern. In 2010 I was a compliance officer at @HSBC. From a back office in New Castle, Delaware, I watched billions of dollars move to drug cartels, sanctioned regimes, and terrorist organizations. The enemies of the United States. I documented it, I escalated it, and when the bank would not act, I took it to the @FBI, the @CIA, and eventually the @SECGov. The result was a $1.92 billion settlement. At the time, it was one of the largest in American history. It was also about five weeks of the bank’s profit. Not one banker was charged. Not one went to prison. I paid a different price. I lost my career, my savings, and my place in the industry I had trained for. I was blacklisted. Every door in American finance closed at once. I slept on a camping cot in a 300 square foot apartment because I could not afford a bed, and I waited tables at @PFChangs to eat. I tell you this not for sympathy, but so you understand that I know exactly what it costs to do the right thing in American finance, and exactly how little the system does in return. I made that sacrifice because I believed it would change something. Yesterday, your department fined @BankofAmerica $1.2 billion for failing to report more than $5 billion in suspicious transactions, some of it tied by your own findings to Chinese laundering networks, narcotics, and the southwest border, alongside 475 apparent sanctions violations touching Russia, Iran, and global terrorism. The bank admitted it willfully violated the Bank Secrecy Act. Fourteen years after HSBC. A bank with “America” in its name. And once again, not one individual charged. Secretary Bessent, I want to say plainly what I believe you already know. The fines are not working. A fine is paid by shareholders, absorbed by the balance sheet, and forgotten by the next earnings call. Bank of America reported earnings this morning. Nobody who set the alert thresholds, nobody who decided the 2024 cease and desist could wait, nobody who chose the backlog over the law will lose a single thing they value. Their lives are untouched. That is the entire reason the behavior repeats. This is money laundering. This is blood money. Money that reaches a cartel buys fentanyl that kills Americans. Money that reaches a terrorist organization buys the next attack. This country has fought a war on drugs and a war on terror for decades, at enormous cost in lives and treasure, and all the while we have allowed the financing to flow through institutions we charter and regulate. Cut off the money and we win. We have never seriously tried. There is also a question of equal justice that I cannot let go. Before I walked into the FBI building to report HSBC, I stopped in front of the Great Seal on the wall and read the words engraved beneath it: “Justice is the defense of our liberty.” I believed that. I still want to. But every day in this country, people go to prison for crimes that are nothing next to moving money for the people who want Americans dead. A suit, a title, and a corporate badge should not be a shield from the consequences that apply to everyone else. If a street dealer goes to prison for what he sells, the banker who moved the cartel’s money should be standing next to him. I also want to raise something that is rarely said in these conversations. Why has no one inside Bank of America come forward the way I did? The answer is that everyone in American banking knows what happened to me, and to the whistleblowers who came after. The last person who spoke up is the only policy anyone believes. That is a culture problem, and it starts with leadership, in the banks and in the agencies that regulate them. This is not a political issue. It has spanned administrations of both parties. It is a national security issue, and I am asking you to treat it as one. Three things would change the math overnight. Refer individuals for criminal prosecution. Not the analyst in the queue. The executives who set the thresholds and chose the risk. One banker in handcuffs would do more than every fine in Treasury’s history combined. End “too big to jail.” An institution cannot be too big to fail and too big to jail at the same time. If it is the first, it must be held to a higher standard, not a lower one. And if Bank of America will not act as America’s bank, review its charter. A national charter is a privilege granted on behalf of the American people. It should be conditioned on not moving money for the people trying to kill them. Secretary Bessent, you said yesterday that these actions send a clear message that even the biggest institutions are not above the law. With respect, the institution was never the problem. The people inside it are above the law, and they know it. Until that changes, I will keep writing letters like this one, and the next bank will keep paying the next fine. I gave up everything I had to stop this. I am asking you to use the power you have to finish it. Respectfully, Everett A. Stern HSBC Whistleblower Founder and Intelligence Director, Tactical Rabbit

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**Illegal Monday** The type of white paper that launched the account. Long post. Citations at end. Why Tech Workers Fighting Visas Cannot Afford to Dismiss Illegal Immigration Six arguments, one labor market, and the illegal labor that does not file an LCA Chief Engineer | September 2026 | Evidence brief for intelligent followers. tl;dr can move along. Not a press release. Abstract: Tech workers have a clean target in the H-1B system because the government publishes the filings. That visibility is useful and incomplete. Unauthorized labor is larger, harder to count, and already inside industries that look corporate on a W-2. This brief lays out six reasons visa-focused workers should treat illegal immigration as a first-order problem: one labor market, housing and schools, shared document fraud, political headcount, the collapse of high-trust work, and a hidden office pipeline that never appears in lottery data. The strongest claim is the last one. Visas have a database. Illegal office labor has a stolen Social Security number and an I-9 a manager certified as genuine. Introduction H-1B is measurable. In fiscal year 2024, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services approved 399,395 H-1B petitions. Seventy-one percent of those beneficiaries were born in India (U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, 2025). Engineers can name the vendors, pull Labor Condition Applications, and argue about wages. Unauthorized presence does not come with that dashboard. Pew Research Center estimated 14 million unauthorized immigrants in the United States in 2023, with 9.7 million in the workforce, 5.6 percent of all U.S. workers (Passel and Krogstad, 2025). Professional and business services, the industry bucket that includes staffing, contractors, and back-office work next to engineers, ran about 7 percent unauthorized in 2023 (Passel and Krogstad, 2025). Treat that 14 million figure as real. At that scale the implication for American tech labor is horrific. No exaggeration. Set aside agriculture and construction for a moment. Those still hurt tech workers. That is another post. The six arguments below are not separate crusades. They are one system viewed from the desk of a worker who already knows the visa fight and has been told the other fight is someone else's problem. Too many comments read: I don't care about illegals. That is ignorance on display. Here is why. The Six Arguments The labor pool is one market Visa fights decide who sits in the cube. Illegal hiring decides what the floor under that cube costs. Unauthorized workers were 15 percent of construction and 14 percent of agriculture in 2023, and 8 percent of leisure and hospitality (Passel and Krogstad, 2025). Those trades set local wages, housing starts, food prices, and logistics costs in the same metros that absorbed H-1B growth. Employers who can tap an unauthorized pool do not compete as hard for legal labor anywhere on the wage ladder. Calling the result a labor shortage is a slogan. It is a suppressed reservation wage. A tech worker who only audits the lottery is measuring the labeled pipe and ignoring the unlabeled one that still moves the cost of living. Housing and schools are not a side issue Nominal tech pay looks high until rent, property tax, classroom size, and emergency-room wait times eat it. Unauthorized households concentrate in the same states that already run large Indian and other visa populations: California, Texas, New Jersey, and similar hubs (Passel and Krogstad, 2025; Ward and Batalova, 2026). School districts enroll first and match immigration files later, if they match them at all. A B-2 visitor is not authorized to use public K-12 as a regular student under federal rules, yet local practice often treats presence as residency (Immigration and Nationality Act section 214(m)). Visa reform that leaves interior status unenforced does not save the school or the starter home. This rearranges who gets the scarce seat. Status fraud is the same picture Overstaying a tourist visa, working after a petition dies, using a stolen Social Security number, and sitting on a B-2 while relatives work are not a different moral category from H-1B abuse. They are the same failure: nobody matches the body to the file. Form I-9 requires the employer to examine documents and certify, under penalty of law, that they appear genuine and relate to the person (8 U.S.C. section 1324a). Repeated I-9 failure, identity theft on a payroll, and vendor layers that hide the worker are how both the staffing firm and the cash crew stay in business. ICE worksite cases keep finding stolen numbers used for wages and benefits (U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, 2025; U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, 2026). If the shop is never reported, neither lane to these jobs gets cut. Politics follows headcount, not job titles Sanctuary rules, benefit access, driver's licenses, and census apportionment are driven by the large unauthorized population, not by the annual H-1B cap. Pew's 14 million figure for 2023, with about 6 million holding some temporary protection and about 8 million holding none, is a political mass (Passel and Krogstad, 2025). ICE manpower is finite. A force on the order of 22,000 agents cannot do worksite, street, and jail detainers at once. The cheap-labor lobby uses both the visa statute and the unenforced interior to exploit the resource for profit. Split the issue into "skilled good, illegal other" and the same donors keep E-Verify voluntary and interior enforcement thin. Tech workers still pay the coalition that protects both pipelines. High-trust work dies when the surrounding county is low-trust Engineering assumes contracts, credentials, and a common language in the meeting. A county that will not remove a known unauthorized crime family, or a hospital that staffs people who cannot communicate a consent, is not a county that stays good at intellectual property and quality control. Multi-generational American workers, including Hispanic families with roots older than living memory, are not the problem. The problem is a system that treats status as optional and undeserved while expecting the office to remain high-trust. You cannot run a specialty-occupation economy on I-9 theater and hope the schools, jails, and clinics stay someone else's responsibility. The hidden corporate path for illegal employees is larger in uncertainty than the lottery H-1B is apparent to us because Labor Condition Applications and petition counts are public. Unauthorized corporate labor does not file an LCA. It files an I-9 with a stolen number that belongs to a citizen, a child, or a dead account, or it keeps a badge after OPT or H-1B status expires. The Social Security Administration has long documented name-number mismatches and SSN misuse by noncitizens not authorized to work (Social Security Administration Office of the Inspector General, 2004). Later estimates put millions of unauthorized workers on valid or borrowed numbers in some years, with the Earnings Suspense File holding unmatched wages at enormous scale. ICE's Glenn Valley Foods operation found about 70 illegal aliens using stolen identities and more than 100 citizen victims whose prescriptions, disability checks, taxes, and licenses were wrecked (U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, 2025). A Kentucky window plant produced indictments for stolen numbers on I-9s (U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, 2026). From the next desk that person looks like a coworker. From USCIS they are out of status. There is no public headcount of unauthorized workers in software, help desk, or vendor IT. That gap is the point. Absence of a lottery table is not absence of bodies. The Strongest Argument** The strongest argument is not that every engineer should stop caring about H-1B. The strongest argument is that H-1B is just one labeled slice of a substitution system made up of many others, and the unlabeled slice sits in the same buildings. A lottery you can screenshot will always attract more heat than a stolen SSN on a W-2. That is a measurement error, not a conclusion about harm. Most do not realize it, but these illegal aliens are in tech and management jobs. By the numbers which are certainly understated... millions of them- they just aren't filing their job or foreign college on a register that we can see but they are web developers, programmers, MBA, and scientists all the same. There is almost no occupation untaught in a foreign country that hasn't been found to be employed in the USA illegally. Professional and business services already carried a 7 percent unauthorized share in 2023 (Passel and Krogstad, 2025). Identity-theft worksite cases prove the method for getting onto formal payroll. Status rot (overstay, lapsed petition, B-2 plus remote work) proves the method for staying off the H-1B list while keeping the badge. Employers certify documents. Vendors hide the headcount. Citizens absorb the tax and credit damage when the number was stolen, with no voice to make it public. Tech workers who treat illegal presence as a blue-collar story are volunteering to miss the massive number of jobs that are theirs. If the standard is "show me the LCA," the unauthorized office worker will always win the argument by disappearing. The correct standard is whether the person is authorized to work. That question belongs to ICE, USCIS, and the Department of Labor, and it only gets asked when someone reports what they saw. Summation What this brief established is simple. Visa abuse is real, documented, and concentrated. The visa system itself is abusive to our unemployed degreed labor. It attracts the majority of attention. This is hard to accept but has to be understood. Unauthorized presence is larger, less visible, and already inside industries that are not farms. One labor market means construction and hospitality wages still move the cost of living for engineers. Imagine if competition for employees pushed wages to 30 dollars per hour to match inflation. Where would an engineering salary lie? Document fraud and weak I-9s are all in the same bucket. Political power tracks bodies, not job codes, and they profit off the capital with Chamber of Commerce money greasing the cheap-labor transactions that sell out our prosperity. High-trust work cannot be isolated from the country that refuses to enforce status. The hidden corporate pipeline is the piece visa activists are most likely to miss. The practical implication is not to abandon H-1B reform. It is to stop treating interior enforcement as a lower-class errand. Report unauthorized hiring. Demand E-Verify with teeth. Treat overstay and stolen-identity payroll as illegal employment, because that is what the statute already says. The laws are there and we should push for enforcement of every single statute. The harm is generational and lowers the potential of our society through a cash-out dilution. A specialty-occupation workforce that only polices the lottery will keep losing to the underground illegal system that never files one. References 8 U.S.C. section 1324a. Unlawful employment of aliens. Immigration and Nationality Act section 214(m), 8 U.S.C. section 1184(m). Limitation on public school attendance for certain nonimmigrants. Passel, J. S., and Krogstad, J. M. (2025, August 21). U.S. unauthorized immigrant population reached a record 14 million in 2023. Pew Research Center. Social Security Administration, Office of the Inspector General. (2004). Social Security numbers: Noncitizens with earnings and unauthorized work (A-03-04-14037). U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. (2025). Characteristics of H-1B specialty occupation workers: Fiscal year 2024 annual report to Congress. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. (2025, June 18). ICE worksite enforcement operation uncovers widespread identity theft affecting more than 100 victims across the nation. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. (2026, June 17). Fraud crackdown: 13 illegal aliens arrested, 8 indicted for using stolen Social Security numbers to work in Kentucky. Ward, N., and Batalova, J. (2026). Indian immigrants in the United States. Migration Policy Institute. Financial Crimes Enforcement Network. (2026). Advisory on financial activity associated with non-work-authorized populations. This brief is for public discussion on Illegal Monday. It is not legal advice. Report suspected unauthorized employment to ICE (866-347-2423 or ) and suspected visa or petition fraud to USCIS. Bookmark this. Share or quote it. 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