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Republican rep questions why American medical school slots are going to foreigners
A new internal medicine residency program at Indiana University gave seven of its eight slots to non-Americans.
The surprising result is raising concerns for local leaders, including state Rep. Andrew Ireland. He pointed out that half of the residents are from Pakistan.
“Does anyone believe no American medical students are qualified? IU has our country’s largest medical school,” Ireland wrote on X.
“We need to end the H-1B visa scam,” he said.
🚨 Wow. Seven of the eight new internal medicine residents at taxpayer-funded Indiana University are foreigners. Half are from Pakistan.
Does anyone believe no American medical students are qualified? IU has our country’s largest medical school.
We need to end the H-1B visa… pic.twitter.com/1LcSnS4UC1
— Andrew Ireland (@AndrewIrelandIN) June 17, 2026
Ireland gave further comments to The Daily Signal about what he sees as the problem.
He said:
We actually have the largest graduating class of medical students at any university in the country.
But somehow, we still can’t seem to find Americans, apparently, that are qualified for these positions. Or you can have the kind of the opposite conclusion of perhaps there’s something going on with their hiring practices, because we continue to pick foreign nationals over Americans for these really important opportunities.
Ireland has previously expressed concerns about foreign influence at the public university.
“We have this thing called the IU Muslim Philanthropy Initiative,” he told the Daily Signal. “But now, it turns out that the Muslim Philanthropy Initiative had partnered with this group called Hayat Yolu, a group that the Treasury Department actually noted as a sham charity working with everything from the Muslim Brotherhood to Hamas to basically funnel money to them.”
This is not the first time an Indiana public university has faced scrutiny for using the H-1B foreign worker visa, which is intended only for difficult to fill jobs.
Ireland previously criticized Purdue University Northwest for using the visa system to hire a marketing professor for $127,000 per year.
IU and Purdue have also claimed in the past they could not fill a number of STEM jobs without hiring foreigners, despite their own robust degree programs in these fields.
The University of Notre Dame also recently advertised an H1-B opening for an English professor, as The Fix reported.
Other jobs the university says it must fill by hiring non-Americans include and associate librarian ($96,000 per year), a marketing program analytics manager ($85,000 per year), and a “program coordinator for student success” ($47,000 per year),” The Fix reported in early June.
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