India, Nov. 26 -- Former US representative for Virginia and economist Dave Brat has alleged a massive fraud in the H-1B visa system, claiming that one Indian district alone got more than two and a half times the total number of visas allowed nationwide.

Speaking during a podcast on Steve Bannon's War Room, Brat claimed that the H-1B visa system had been "captured by industrial-scale fraud" and visa numbers from India had increased in a way that went beyond what was legally allowed.

Notably, the H-1B visa is issued to foreign workers and is used by American companies to hire talent from outside the country. Indian nationals are the largest group to benefit from this temporary work visa programme.

"71% of the H-1B visas come from India, ...