The Shell Game: Fake Companies, Foreign Workers, No Questions Asked

  • What Happened: BlazeTV's Sara Gonzales went looking for workers at Texas tech companies importing H-1B visa holders and found empty rooms, residential homes, and construction sites instead of offices.
  • Why It Matters: The investigation triggered a sweeping probe by Texas AG Ken Paxton and a full H-1B visa freeze by Governor Greg Abbott after the scandal exploded publicly.
  • Bottom Line: Fake companies, ghost offices, and thousands of foreign workers flooding in while the feds looked the other way — and it took one journalist to blow the whole thing open.

They said they were tech companies. They had websites. They had visa approvals. They had one thing missing: actual workers.

BlazeTV host Sara Gonzales went looking for the employees of Qubitz Tech Systems LLC in Frisco, Texas, a company with 12 approved H-1B visas on the books. What she found instead of software developers was a four-bedroom house in a residential neighborhood. When she knocked on the door and asked about the company, the man who answered called the police. Gonzales welcomed it.

She then visited the supposed worksite. Instead of finding a dozen workers engaged in software development, she found a vacant, prison-cell-sized room with a single chair and some folding tables. 

Then she went to 3Bees Technologies, a company with 27 approved H-1B visas. At the listed address in Plano, she found a building under construction with no signs of office workers or software development anywhere. 

It gets worse. Gonzales uncovered what she is now calling "visa hives" — single office suites with as many as 19 separate companies all listing the same address while sponsoring foreign workers whose physical presence is impossible to verify.

"There are probably an insane amount of companies who are pulling this off," Gonzales said. "They're going completely undetected by the government." 

The blowback was immediate. Texas AG Ken Paxton stood outside one of the ghost offices and told Gonzales directly, "Thanks to you, we're here today," announcing a sweeping investigation and Civil Investigative Demands to three North Texas companies. Governor Greg Abbott followed, freezing new H-1B visa petitions across all state agencies and public universities until May 2027. 

One journalist with a camera did what the federal government failed to do for years. The only question now is how deep this rabbit hole goes.