Governor Abbott ordered an immediate halt to new H-1B petitions on January 27, 2026. Federal records show the Texas A&M University System kept filing anyway — 61 applications in 58 days, 57 of them certified by the DOL.
TX Government
Inside the Texas Attorney General’s Office: Child Support, Attorneys, and Who Does the Work
The Texas Office of the Attorney General is not a single coherent agency — it is two very different workforces sharing an agency code. On one side: 757 Assistant Attorneys General who average $126,713 a year, backed by law enforcement investigators, legal support staff, and managers. On the other: 1,604 child support officers and technicians who average $55,457 — less than half the attorneys’ pay — and who make up the single largest job category in the agency at 39.6% of all employees.
Asian Employees at the Texas Workforce Commission
The hire trend chart is one of the more interesting findings: Asian IT hiring at TWC nearly tripled between 2019 and 2022, peaking at 28 hires in 2022 and holding at 23–25 per year since. That acceleration coincides with the post-COVID period when H-1B processing backlogs cleared.
The salary finding cuts both ways — the $72k Asian average looks good until you see that Hispanic and Black employees, who together are 55% of the workforce, are earning $5,000–6,000 below the agency mean while doing the core public-facing work of the agency.
https://guestworkervisas.com/twc_asian_workforce_report.html
Texas Dept. of Family and Protective Services Workforce & H-1B Analysis
DFPS caseworkers are chronically underpaid, routinely overloaded, and among the highest-turnover state employees in Texas. The agency has struggled for years to keep enough workers on staff to handle its caseloads. The state legislature has held hearings on it. Children have died because of it.
And yet the agency’s IT budget runs through ten H-1B staffing firms at an average of $105,704 per worker. One vendor filed a petition listing Kentucky’s Cabinet for Health and Family Services as the worksite entity on what appears to be a Texas DFPS placement. Four petitions from a single vendor were all withdrawn after certification. Six case numbers appear in both Q1 and Q2. This is the largest agency in the series and its procurement data is the messiest.
Texas Department of Agriculture Workforce & H-1B Analysis
The TDA serves Texas farmers, ranchers, rural communities, and the Future Farmers of America. Its 660 employees work on food safety, rural economic development, agriculture inspections, and the programs that support family farms across the state. Its IT operation, however, is staffed almost entirely through H-1B vendors — 11 visa workers from 5 outside firms, with 5 duplicate case numbers in just 11 petitions.
Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts Workforce & H-1B Analysis
This is the agency that collects Texas taxes, issues state payments, and maintains fiscal oversight over every other state agency. Its IT systems hold some of the most sensitive financial data in Texas government. And the H-1B petitions filed against it include a vendor who submitted a job title as “Sr. Software Doveloper” — the same misspelled title filed in both Q1 and Q2 alongside the correctly spelled version.
Whether that typo was accidental or a mechanism to avoid duplicate petition detection, it raises a serious question: who is vetting these vendors before they get access to the Comptroller’s systems? Five duplicate case numbers across just 13 petitions is a rate that should not exist in a properly managed procurement process.
The Texas Office of the Attorney General runs the largest child support program in the country — collecting billions of dollars annually for Texas children and families who depend on it.
That program runs on software.
And the software, it turns out, is being developed and architected by H-1B workers placed through outside staffing firms.
Only 4 H-1B placements appear for the OAG in FY2026 — far fewer than TxDOT — but the location matters.
Both placements target the Child Support Division, one as a Software Developer and one as a Cloud Architect.
These are skilled IT roles tied to a system that 4,050 OAG employees depend on daily, and that Texas families rely on for child support payments.
A duplicate petition flag on one of them raises additional questions about how these contracts are being managed.
Texas Dept. of Transportation Workforce & H-1B Analysis
For generations, a job at TxDOT meant something. It meant your kids could go to college. It meant a pension and health insurance in a state that doesn’t offer much of either. It was one of the clearest on-ramps into the middle class available to working Texans — Black, Hispanic, White, and Native American families alike built careers there.
The data below shows that 132 H-1B workers are currently placed at TxDOT through 13 outside staffing and consulting firms. The largest single vendor, CGI Technologies, holds 100 petitions — 50 filed each quarter — all for the same job title at the same wage. Those are IT positions that Texas workers could fill. Nobody in Austin, San Antonio, or El Paso got a phone call first.
The Irony Writes Itself
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has been making headlines for months investigating H-1B visa fraud. He launched a sweeping probe in January 2026, issued Civil Investigative Demands to nearly 30 North Texas companies, sued at least one of them, and has been very public about his intention to stop what he calls abuse of the H-1B program.
So I started looking at who is staffing the H-1B workers inside his own office.
What I found is sitting right there in the Department of Labor’s public disclosure database — the Labor Condition Applications that every H-1B employer is required to file. No hacking, no leaks, no anonymous sources. Just public records.
Here is what those records show.
Three separate companies filed H-1B applications in 2026 to place Software Developers and Software Engineers at the Office of the Attorney General, Child Support Division, in Austin, Texas at zip code 78741. All three certified workers at exactly $115,000 per year — Level II prevailing wage, not a penny more. All three filings were approved.
The three companies are:
3Core Systems, Inc. — headquartered in Aurora, Illinois. Not a Texas company. They hold a Texas DIR contract (DIR-CPO-5614) for IT staff augmentation, signed by their President and CEO Navin Kandula. That contract is the vehicle that allows them to place workers inside any Texas state agency, including the OAG, without a separate competitive bid.
MAXPRO INC — based in Farmington Hills, Michigan. Not a Texas company. Their website is maxprous.com and their HR contact is hr@maxprous.com. Every job opening listed on their website is in Michigan. Yet they have two certified H-1B filings placing Software Engineers inside the Texas Office of the Attorney General in Q1 and Q2 of 2026. We could find no active Texas DIR contract for MAXPRO INC and no record of them in the Texas Comptroller’s contract database. How they obtained a placement inside a state agency without a contract vehicle is a question the OAG should be able to answer.
tekAssembly Corporation — also placing Software Developers at the OAG, listed as remote but designating the OAG as the secondary entity. Two filings, same wage, same pattern.
To be clear about what the Child Support Division does: it is not a division that the OAG merely oversees. The OAG directly operates the state’s child support enforcement program. Those H-1B workers are inside Ken Paxton’s office, doing software development work, employed by out-of-state staffing companies, paid the legal minimum wage under the H-1B program.
Meanwhile, Paxton’s office issued this statement in January 2026 when launching his H-1B investigation: “I will not allow the H-1B program to be abused by bad actors seeking to use it as a loophole for allowing foreign nationals to invade Texas.”
I am not a lawyer and I am not saying anyone broke the law. What I am saying is that the same public records system that Paxton’s investigators are presumably using to build their cases against those 30 North Texas companies shows the exact same staffing pattern operating inside his own office — out-of-state companies, H-1B workers, minimum prevailing wages, placed into a Texas government agency.
If the H-1B program is being used as a loophole, it is being used as a loophole everywhere. Including at 300 West 15th Street in Austin.
All of this is sourced to public records. The H-1B filings are searchable at GuestWorkerVisas.com. The 3Core DIR contract is DIR-CPO-5614, available at dir.texas.gov. The MAXPRO vendor page at DIR shows no active contract. The Paxton press releases are on the OAG’s own website.
I am a 68-year-old man living on $1,419 a month in Social Security, doing this research one public database at a time because nobody else is connecting these dots. If you find this useful, please share it.
Virgil Bierschwale — GuestWorkerVisas.com
Who Is Working Inside Water Development Board? ITSAC Investigation
Investigation into Water Development Board ITSAC contracts — 2 contracts totaling $242,647, with 0 named individual workers identified in public LBB contract records.