Harmeet Dhillon announces Instacart penalty

by Flint: Harmeet Dhillon

Trump's DOJ and Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon just hit Instacart with a $5 million bill for rigging the hiring game against American workers to boost foreign visa holders. The setup was blatant: from December 2023 through February 2026, US applicants were forced to mail paper forms while visa recipients could click online. Now Instacart must cough up $4 million to those shut-out Americans plus another $1 million in penalties, all while a federal monitor watches their every move. This enforcement lands right after the Trump admin suspended several firms' access to the PERM program for foreign labor, putting every single company on official notice that they better not try this shenanigan.