{"id":648,"date":"2026-08-03T21:32:44","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T02:32:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/guestworkervisas.com\/blog\/?p=648"},"modified":"2026-08-03T21:32:44","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T02:32:44","slug":"a-decade-of-h-1b-sponsoring-staffing-firms-inside-the-texas-attorney-generals-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/guestworkervisas.com\/blog\/a-decade-of-h-1b-sponsoring-staffing-firms-inside-the-texas-attorney-generals-office\/","title":{"rendered":"A Decade of H-1B-Sponsoring Staffing Firms Inside the Texas Attorney General&#8217;s Office"},"content":{"rendered":"<style>.viz-root { color-scheme: light; --surface-1: #fcfcfb; --page: #f9f9f7; --text-primary: #0b0b0b; --text-secondary: #52514e; --text-muted: #898781; --gridline: #e1e0d9; --baseline: #c3c2b7; --border: rgba(11,11,11,0.10); --series-1: #2a78d6; --series-2: #eb6834; --series-3: #4c9a5b; --callout-bg: #f0efec; } @media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) { :root:where(:not([data-theme=\"light\"])) .viz-root { color-scheme: dark; --surface-1: #1a1a19; --page: #0d0d0d; --text-primary: #ffffff; --text-secondary: #c3c2b7; --text-muted: #898781; --gridline: #2c2c2a; --baseline: #383835; --border: rgba(255,255,255,0.10); --series-1: #3987e5; --series-2: #d95926; --series-3: #5cb56d; --callout-bg: #232322; } } :root[data-theme=\"dark\"] .viz-root { color-scheme: dark; --surface-1: #1a1a19; --page: #0d0d0d; --text-primary: #ffffff; --text-secondary: #c3c2b7; --text-muted: #898781; --gridline: #2c2c2a; --baseline: #383835; --border: rgba(255,255,255,0.10); --series-1: #3987e5; --series-2: #d95926; --series-3: #5cb56d; --callout-bg: #232322; } .viz-root { background: var(--page); color: var(--text-primary); font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, \"Segoe UI\", sans-serif; padding: 24px; } .viz-root .wrap { max-width: 1040px; margin: 0 auto; } .viz-root h1 { font-size: 20px; margin: 0 0 4px; font-weight: 600; } .viz-root .subtitle { color: var(--text-secondary); font-size: 13px; margin: 0 0 20px; max-width: 76ch; line-height: 1.5; } .viz-root .stat-row { display: grid; grid-template-columns: repeat(4, 1fr); gap: 12px; margin-bottom: 20px; } .viz-root .stat-tile { background: var(--surface-1); border: 1px solid var(--border); border-radius: 10px; padding: 14px 16px; } .viz-root .stat-label { font-size: 12px; color: var(--text-secondary); margin-bottom: 6px; } .viz-root .stat-value { font-size: 20px; font-weight: 600; } .viz-root .stat-sub { font-size: 11px; color: var(--text-muted); margin-top: 4px; line-height: 1.4; } .viz-root .card { background: var(--surface-1); border: 1px solid var(--border); border-radius: 12px; padding: 18px 20px 12px; margin-bottom: 20px; } .viz-root .card-title { font-size: 14px; font-weight: 600; margin-bottom: 4px; } .viz-root .card-desc { font-size: 12px; color: var(--text-secondary); margin: 2px 0 10px; max-width: 76ch; line-height: 1.5; } .viz-root .legend { display: flex; gap: 14px; font-size: 12px; color: var(--text-secondary); margin-top: 10px; flex-wrap: wrap; } .viz-root .legend-item { display: flex; align-items: center; gap: 6px; } .viz-root .legend-swatch { width: 10px; height: 10px; border-radius: 2px; display: inline-block; } .viz-root .chart-scroll { overflow-x: auto; } .viz-root svg { display: block; overflow: visible; max-width: 100%; height: auto; } .viz-root .gridline { stroke: var(--gridline); stroke-width: 1; } .viz-root .baseline { stroke: var(--baseline); stroke-width: 1; } .viz-root .axis-label { fill: var(--text-muted); font-size: 9px; } .viz-root .row-label { fill: var(--text-secondary); font-size: 10.5px; } .viz-root .val-label { fill: var(--text-secondary); font-size: 10px; font-weight: 600; } .viz-root .val-label-sm { fill: var(--text-secondary); font-size: 8px; font-weight: 600; } .viz-root .callout { background: var(--callout-bg); border-radius: 8px; padding: 10px 14px; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.55; color: var(--text-secondary); margin-top: 10px; } .viz-root .callout b { color: var(--text-primary); } .viz-root footer.foot { font-size: 11px; color: var(--text-muted); text-align: center; margin-top: 24px; } @media (max-width: 640px) { .viz-root .stat-row { grid-template-columns: 1fr 1fr; } }<\/style>\n<div class=\"viz-root\">\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<h1>A decade of H-1B-sponsoring staffing firms inside the Texas Attorney General&#8217;s office<\/h1>\n<p class=\"subtitle\">The Office of the Attorney General has spent roughly $173.9 million since 2015 on temporary-staffing and &#8220;IT staff augmentation&#8221; contracts &mdash; and the office is still awarding them. We cross-referenced every vendor on that list against federal H-1B disclosure data, verifying each match by employer city and state rather than trusting name matches alone. At least 14 of those vendors are confirmed H-1B sponsors, together holding $26.85 million and 98 separate OAG contracts running from 2015 through September 2025. Data: guestworkervisas.com Contract Registry (Texas Comptroller procurement disclosure data) &middot; DOL\/OFLC H-1B LCA disclosure data, cross-matched by employer name, city, and state.<\/p>\n<div class=\"stat-row\">\n<div class=\"stat-tile\">\n<div class=\"stat-label\">OAG staffing\/IT-augmentation spend, 2015&ndash;2026<\/div>\n<div class=\"stat-value\">$173.9M<\/div>\n<div class=\"stat-sub\">Across 719 contracts &mdash; still active, with $409K already awarded in 2026<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"stat-tile\">\n<div class=\"stat-label\">WorkQuest \/ TIBH (disability set-aside)<\/div>\n<div class=\"stat-value\">$75.3M (43%)<\/div>\n<div class=\"stat-sub\">State-mandated channel under Texas Human Resources Code Ch. 122 &mdash; not part of the H-1B figure below<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"stat-tile\">\n<div class=\"stat-label\">Confirmed H-1B-sponsor vendors<\/div>\n<div class=\"stat-value\">$26.85M<\/div>\n<div class=\"stat-sub\">98 contracts, 14 distinct companies, identity-verified by city\/state, not name alone<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"stat-tile\">\n<div class=\"stat-label\">Largest single vendor<\/div>\n<div class=\"stat-value\">Bansar Technologies<\/div>\n<div class=\"stat-sub\">Austin, TX &mdash; $8.98M across 32 contracts, 2017&ndash;2025<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"card\">\n<div class=\"card-title\">Confirmed H-1B-sponsor vendors, by total OAG contract value<\/div>\n<p class=\"card-desc\">Every vendor below appears in both the OAG&#8217;s own contract records and DOL&#8217;s H-1B LCA disclosure data under a matching legal name, city, and state &mdash; not just a similar-sounding name (see methodology note below for why that distinction mattered). Five of the top eight are Austin-based, walking distance from the agency they contracted with.<\/p>\n<div class=\"chart-scroll\"><svg width=\"900\" height=\"470\" viewBox=\"0 0 900 470\">\n<line x1=\"300.0\" x2=\"300.0\" y1=\"6.0\" y2=\"462.0\" class=\"baseline\"><\/line>\n<line x1=\"384.4\" x2=\"384.4\" y1=\"6.0\" y2=\"462.0\" class=\"gridline\"><\/line>\n<line x1=\"468.9\" x2=\"468.9\" y1=\"6.0\" y2=\"462.0\" class=\"gridline\"><\/line>\n<line x1=\"553.3\" x2=\"553.3\" y1=\"6.0\" y2=\"462.0\" class=\"gridline\"><\/line>\n<line x1=\"637.8\" x2=\"637.8\" y1=\"6.0\" y2=\"462.0\" class=\"gridline\"><\/line>\n<text x=\"290.0\" y=\"29.0\" class=\"row-label\" text-anchor=\"end\">Bansar Technologies Inc &mdash; Austin, TX<\/text>\n<rect x=\"300.0\" y=\"13.0\" width=\"379.1\" height=\"26.0\" fill=\"var(--series-2)\" rx=\"2\"><\/rect>\n<text x=\"685.1\" y=\"29.0\" class=\"val-label\" text-anchor=\"start\">$8,981,358 (33.4%)<\/text>\n<text x=\"290.0\" y=\"61.0\" class=\"row-label\" text-anchor=\"end\">Actium Inc &mdash; Austin, TX<\/text>\n<rect x=\"300.0\" y=\"45.0\" width=\"137.2\" height=\"26.0\" fill=\"var(--series-1)\" rx=\"2\"><\/rect>\n<text x=\"443.2\" y=\"61.0\" class=\"val-label\" text-anchor=\"start\">$3,250,356 (12.1%)<\/text>\n<text x=\"290.0\" y=\"93.0\" class=\"row-label\" text-anchor=\"end\">Conquest Consulting LLC &mdash; Cedar Park, TX<\/text>\n<rect x=\"300.0\" y=\"77.0\" width=\"106.6\" height=\"26.0\" fill=\"var(--series-1)\" rx=\"2\"><\/rect>\n<text x=\"412.6\" y=\"93.0\" class=\"val-label\" text-anchor=\"start\">$2,524,682 (9.4%)<\/text>\n<text x=\"290.0\" y=\"125.0\" class=\"row-label\" text-anchor=\"end\">Steck Systems Inc &mdash; Austin, TX<\/text>\n<rect x=\"300.0\" y=\"109.0\" width=\"84.4\" height=\"26.0\" fill=\"var(--series-1)\" rx=\"2\"><\/rect>\n<text x=\"390.4\" y=\"125.0\" class=\"val-label\" text-anchor=\"start\">$1,998,410 (7.4%)<\/text>\n<text x=\"290.0\" y=\"157.0\" class=\"row-label\" text-anchor=\"end\">Esolvit Inc &mdash; Austin, TX<\/text>\n<rect x=\"300.0\" y=\"141.0\" width=\"77.0\" height=\"26.0\" fill=\"var(--series-1)\" rx=\"2\"><\/rect>\n<text x=\"383.0\" y=\"157.0\" class=\"val-label\" text-anchor=\"start\">$1,824,286 (6.8%)<\/text>\n<text x=\"290.0\" y=\"189.0\" class=\"row-label\" text-anchor=\"end\">Cogent Infotech Corp &mdash; Pittsburgh, PA<\/text>\n<rect x=\"300.0\" y=\"173.0\" width=\"75.1\" height=\"26.0\" fill=\"var(--series-1)\" rx=\"2\"><\/rect>\n<text x=\"381.1\" y=\"189.0\" class=\"val-label\" text-anchor=\"start\">$1,779,801 (6.6%)<\/text>\n<text x=\"290.0\" y=\"221.0\" class=\"row-label\" text-anchor=\"end\">22nd Century Technologies Inc &mdash; McLean, VA<\/text>\n<rect x=\"300.0\" y=\"205.0\" width=\"65.1\" height=\"26.0\" fill=\"var(--series-1)\" rx=\"2\"><\/rect>\n<text x=\"371.1\" y=\"221.0\" class=\"val-label\" text-anchor=\"start\">$1,541,464 (5.7%)<\/text>\n<text x=\"290.0\" y=\"253.0\" class=\"row-label\" text-anchor=\"end\">E-Consulting Inc &mdash; Irving, TX<\/text>\n<rect x=\"300.0\" y=\"237.0\" width=\"63.6\" height=\"26.0\" fill=\"var(--series-1)\" rx=\"2\"><\/rect>\n<text x=\"369.6\" y=\"253.0\" class=\"val-label\" text-anchor=\"start\">$1,507,316 (5.6%)<\/text>\n<text x=\"290.0\" y=\"285.0\" class=\"row-label\" text-anchor=\"end\">Allied Consultants Inc &mdash; Austin, TX<\/text>\n<rect x=\"300.0\" y=\"269.0\" width=\"42.8\" height=\"26.0\" fill=\"var(--series-1)\" rx=\"2\"><\/rect>\n<text x=\"348.8\" y=\"285.0\" class=\"val-label\" text-anchor=\"start\">$1,013,250 (3.8%)<\/text>\n<text x=\"290.0\" y=\"317.0\" class=\"row-label\" text-anchor=\"end\">TEKsystems Inc &mdash; (national)<\/text>\n<rect x=\"300.0\" y=\"301.0\" width=\"41.6\" height=\"26.0\" fill=\"var(--series-1)\" rx=\"2\"><\/rect>\n<text x=\"347.6\" y=\"317.0\" class=\"val-label\" text-anchor=\"start\">$985,592 (3.7%)<\/text>\n<text x=\"290.0\" y=\"349.0\" class=\"row-label\" text-anchor=\"end\">Red Salsa Technologies Inc &mdash; Princeton, NJ<\/text>\n<rect x=\"300.0\" y=\"333.0\" width=\"34.5\" height=\"26.0\" fill=\"var(--series-1)\" rx=\"2\"><\/rect>\n<text x=\"340.5\" y=\"349.0\" class=\"val-label\" text-anchor=\"start\">$817,942 (3.0%)<\/text>\n<text x=\"290.0\" y=\"381.0\" class=\"row-label\" text-anchor=\"end\">Idea Technologies LLC &mdash; Austin, TX<\/text>\n<rect x=\"300.0\" y=\"365.0\" width=\"14.7\" height=\"26.0\" fill=\"var(--series-1)\" rx=\"2\"><\/rect>\n<text x=\"320.7\" y=\"381.0\" class=\"val-label\" text-anchor=\"start\">$347,513 (1.3%)<\/text>\n<text x=\"290.0\" y=\"413.0\" class=\"row-label\" text-anchor=\"end\">Objectwin Technology Inc &mdash; Houston, TX<\/text>\n<rect x=\"300.0\" y=\"397.0\" width=\"7.6\" height=\"26.0\" fill=\"var(--series-1)\" rx=\"2\"><\/rect>\n<text x=\"313.6\" y=\"413.0\" class=\"val-label\" text-anchor=\"start\">$181,084 (0.7%)<\/text>\n<text x=\"290.0\" y=\"445.0\" class=\"row-label\" text-anchor=\"end\">Apex Systems Inc &mdash; Glen Allen, VA<\/text>\n<rect x=\"300.0\" y=\"429.0\" width=\"4.2\" height=\"26.0\" fill=\"var(--series-1)\" rx=\"2\"><\/rect>\n<text x=\"310.2\" y=\"445.0\" class=\"val-label\" text-anchor=\"start\">$99,123 (0.4%)<\/text>\n<\/svg><\/div>\n<div class=\"legend\">\n<div class=\"legend-item\"><span class=\"legend-swatch\" style=\"background:var(--series-2)\"><\/span><span>Largest vendor<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"legend-item\"><span class=\"legend-swatch\" style=\"background:var(--series-1)\"><\/span><span>Other confirmed H-1B-sponsor vendors<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"card\">\n<div class=\"card-title\">Total OAG staffing \/ temporary-personnel \/ ITSAC spend, by year<\/div>\n<p class=\"card-desc\">This is every contract in the broader staffing\/temporary-personnel\/&#8221;ITSAC&#8221; family at OAG &mdash; WorkQuest and the confirmed H-1B vendors combined &mdash; not just the H-1B-linked subset above. It answers a question our first pass at this data got wrong: a keyword-only search on the word &#8220;staff&#8221; made it look like this spending collapsed after 2017. It didn&#8217;t. The office simply renamed the line item to &#8220;ITSAC&#8221; and &#8220;Temporary Personnel Services&#8221; around 2018 and kept contracting at scale.<\/p>\n<div class=\"chart-scroll\"><svg width=\"900\" height=\"260\" viewBox=\"0 0 900 260\">\n<line x1=\"56.0\" x2=\"884.0\" y1=\"220.00\" y2=\"220.00\" class=\"baseline\"><\/line>\n<text x=\"50.0\" y=\"223.00\" class=\"axis-label\" text-anchor=\"end\">$0M<\/text>\n<line x1=\"56.0\" x2=\"884.0\" y1=\"153.33\" y2=\"153.33\" class=\"gridline\"><\/line>\n<text x=\"50.0\" y=\"156.33\" class=\"axis-label\" text-anchor=\"end\">$10M<\/text>\n<line x1=\"56.0\" x2=\"884.0\" y1=\"86.67\" y2=\"86.67\" class=\"gridline\"><\/line>\n<text x=\"50.0\" y=\"89.67\" class=\"axis-label\" text-anchor=\"end\">$20M<\/text>\n<line x1=\"56.0\" x2=\"884.0\" y1=\"20.00\" y2=\"20.00\" class=\"gridline\"><\/line>\n<text x=\"50.0\" y=\"23.00\" class=\"axis-label\" text-anchor=\"end\">$30M<\/text>\n<rect x=\"70.6\" y=\"144.4\" width=\"46.0\" height=\"75.6\" fill=\"var(--series-2)\" rx=\"2\"><\/rect>\n<text x=\"93.6\" y=\"139.4\" class=\"val-label\" text-anchor=\"middle\">$11.3M<\/text>\n<text x=\"93.6\" y=\"234.0\" class=\"axis-label\" text-anchor=\"middle\">2015<\/text>\n<rect x=\"145.9\" y=\"28.6\" width=\"46.0\" height=\"191.4\" fill=\"var(--series-2)\" rx=\"2\"><\/rect>\n<text x=\"168.9\" y=\"23.6\" class=\"val-label\" text-anchor=\"middle\">$28.7M<\/text>\n<text x=\"168.9\" y=\"234.0\" class=\"axis-label\" text-anchor=\"middle\">2016<\/text>\n<rect x=\"221.2\" y=\"34.3\" width=\"46.0\" height=\"185.7\" fill=\"var(--series-2)\" rx=\"2\"><\/rect>\n<text x=\"244.2\" y=\"29.3\" class=\"val-label\" text-anchor=\"middle\">$27.8M<\/text>\n<text x=\"244.2\" y=\"234.0\" class=\"axis-label\" text-anchor=\"middle\">2017<\/text>\n<rect x=\"296.4\" y=\"115.6\" width=\"46.0\" height=\"104.4\" fill=\"var(--series-2)\" rx=\"2\"><\/rect>\n<text x=\"319.4\" y=\"110.6\" class=\"val-label\" text-anchor=\"middle\">$15.7M<\/text>\n<text x=\"319.4\" y=\"234.0\" class=\"axis-label\" text-anchor=\"middle\">2018<\/text>\n<rect x=\"371.7\" y=\"78.8\" width=\"46.0\" height=\"141.2\" fill=\"var(--series-2)\" rx=\"2\"><\/rect>\n<text x=\"394.7\" y=\"73.8\" class=\"val-label\" text-anchor=\"middle\">$21.2M<\/text>\n<text x=\"394.7\" y=\"234.0\" class=\"axis-label\" text-anchor=\"middle\">2019<\/text>\n<rect x=\"447.0\" y=\"176.1\" width=\"46.0\" height=\"43.9\" fill=\"var(--series-2)\" rx=\"2\"><\/rect>\n<text x=\"470.0\" y=\"171.1\" class=\"val-label\" text-anchor=\"middle\">$6.6M<\/text>\n<text x=\"470.0\" y=\"234.0\" class=\"axis-label\" text-anchor=\"middle\">2020<\/text>\n<rect x=\"522.2\" y=\"71.5\" width=\"46.0\" height=\"148.5\" fill=\"var(--series-2)\" rx=\"2\"><\/rect>\n<text x=\"545.2\" y=\"66.5\" class=\"val-label\" text-anchor=\"middle\">$22.3M<\/text>\n<text x=\"545.2\" y=\"234.0\" class=\"axis-label\" text-anchor=\"middle\">2021<\/text>\n<rect x=\"597.5\" y=\"92.9\" width=\"46.0\" height=\"127.1\" fill=\"var(--series-2)\" rx=\"2\"><\/rect>\n<text x=\"620.5\" y=\"87.9\" class=\"val-label\" text-anchor=\"middle\">$19.1M<\/text>\n<text x=\"620.5\" y=\"234.0\" class=\"axis-label\" text-anchor=\"middle\">2022<\/text>\n<rect x=\"672.7\" y=\"142.6\" width=\"46.0\" height=\"77.4\" fill=\"var(--series-2)\" rx=\"2\"><\/rect>\n<text x=\"695.7\" y=\"137.6\" class=\"val-label\" text-anchor=\"middle\">$11.6M<\/text>\n<text x=\"695.7\" y=\"234.0\" class=\"axis-label\" text-anchor=\"middle\">2023<\/text>\n<rect x=\"748.0\" y=\"185.8\" width=\"46.0\" height=\"34.2\" fill=\"var(--series-2)\" rx=\"2\"><\/rect>\n<text x=\"771.0\" y=\"180.8\" class=\"val-label\" text-anchor=\"middle\">$5.1M<\/text>\n<text x=\"771.0\" y=\"234.0\" class=\"axis-label\" text-anchor=\"middle\">2024<\/text>\n<rect x=\"823.3\" y=\"193.0\" width=\"46.0\" height=\"27.0\" fill=\"var(--series-2)\" rx=\"2\"><\/rect>\n<text x=\"846.3\" y=\"188.0\" class=\"val-label\" text-anchor=\"middle\">$4.0M<\/text>\n<text x=\"846.3\" y=\"234.0\" class=\"axis-label\" text-anchor=\"middle\">2025<\/text>\n<\/svg><\/div>\n<div class=\"legend\">\n<div class=\"legend-item\"><span class=\"legend-swatch\" style=\"background:var(--series-2)\"><\/span><span>OAG staffing \/ temporary-personnel \/ ITSAC contract value awarded that year<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"callout\">2026 isn&#8217;t charted (partial year), but the office had already awarded three new FY26 &#8220;ITSAC&#8221; contracts totaling $409,148 by early April 2026 &mdash; to SLG Millennium Group LLC, Neos Consulting Group LLC, and Optimum Consultancy Services. We checked all three against both the historical H-1B archive and the current 2026 filing table: none turn up under any plausible name variant, so none are counted as confirmed H-1B sponsors here. Spending has trended down from its 2016&ndash;2017 peak and dipped sharply in 2020, but the category itself has never gone away: the newest confirmed H-1B-sponsor awards we found were to Bansar Technologies and Idea Technologies, both dated 2025-09-01.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"card\">\n<div class=\"card-title\">How we verified vendor identity &mdash; and why it caught a false match<\/div>\n<p class=\"card-desc\">A name-only match between a state contract vendor and an H-1B filer is not proof they&#8217;re the same company &mdash; and this dataset had two clean examples of why. &#8220;Capitol Consulting Services,&#8221; an OAG vendor paid $798,509 across 5 contracts, superficially matched an H-1B filer called &#8220;First Capitol Consulting, Inc.&#8221; &mdash; but that company is based in Los Angeles with no apparent Texas connection, and the name isn&#8217;t actually the same. We excluded it. Separately, a substring search for &#8220;National Human Resource Group&#8221; (an OAG vendor) turned up &#8220;International Human Resources Development Corporation&#8221; purely because &#8220;national&#8221; is contained inside &#8220;international&#8221; &mdash; an unrelated Boston nonprofit. Every vendor in the confirmed total above was checked individually against the H-1B filer&#8217;s registered city and state, not matched on name text alone.<\/p>\n<div class=\"callout\"><b>Checked and found no confirmed H-1B match:<\/b> WorkQuest\/TIBH (not a foreign-labor staffing model), National Human Resource Group Inc, PMCS Services Inc, EKHP Consulting LLC, and the three vendors awarded OAG&#8217;s newest FY26 contracts &mdash; SLG Millennium Group LLC, Neos Consulting Group LLC, and Optimum Consultancy Services. These vendors either have no H-1B filings on record under any plausible name, or we could not verify one &mdash; they are not included in the $26.85 million figure.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"card\">\n<div class=\"card-title\">What this means<\/div>\n<p class=\"card-desc\">The Texas Attorney General&#8217;s office &mdash; the state&#8217;s chief law-enforcement agency, responsible for enforcing Texas&#8217;s own labor and employment laws &mdash; has spent nearly $27 million of public money since 2015 on contracts with staffing vendors that are themselves active H-1B sponsors, and the arrangement is still running today. This isn&#8217;t a claim that any of these contracts were improperly awarded; OAG&#8217;s procurement records show the bulk went through competitive bidding. It&#8217;s a claim about where the money actually ends up: when a state agency outsources &#8220;IT staff augmentation&#8221; to a vendor, it isn&#8217;t hiring Texans directly, and in at least 14 of these vendor relationships, it&#8217;s contracting with firms that source a meaningful share of their technical labor through the guest-worker visa system &mdash; on the state&#8217;s own dime, inside the very office that is supposed to be Texas&#8217;s watchdog on these issues.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<footer class=\"foot\">Data: guestworkervisas.com Contract Registry (Texas Comptroller\/state procurement disclosure data), Office of the Attorney General records, 2005&ndash;2026 &middot; DOL\/OFLC H-1B LCA disclosure data, cross-matched by employer legal name, city, and state.<\/footer>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A decade of H-1B-sponsoring staffing firms inside the Texas Attorney General&#8217;s office The Office of the Attorney General has spent roughly $173.9 million since 2015 on temporary-staffing and &#8220;IT staff augmentation&#8221; contracts &mdash; and the office is still awarding them. We cross-referenced every vendor on that list against federal H-1B disclosure data, verifying each match &#8230; <a title=\"A Decade of H-1B-Sponsoring Staffing Firms Inside the Texas Attorney General&#8217;s Office\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/guestworkervisas.com\/blog\/a-decade-of-h-1b-sponsoring-staffing-firms-inside-the-texas-attorney-generals-office\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about A Decade of H-1B-Sponsoring Staffing Firms Inside the Texas Attorney General&#8217;s Office\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-contracts","category-h-1b"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/guestworkervisas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/guestworkervisas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/guestworkervisas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guestworkervisas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guestworkervisas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=648"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/guestworkervisas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":650,"href":"https:\/\/guestworkervisas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648\/revisions\/650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/guestworkervisas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guestworkervisas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guestworkervisas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}