New Delhi, Nov. 26 -- A claim by former US Congress, Republican Dave Brat, where he said Chennai got 220,000 H1B visas while the statutory cap for the same is 85,000, has raised speculations of whether there is widespread fraud in the system.

Brat made these claims on a talk show hosted by conservative political strategist Steve Bannon on X called Bannon's WarRoom.

Brat, in the talk show, claimed the 'Madras district' got more than double the permitted H1B limit per year for the entire world, saying that this amounts to 'industrial-scale fraud'.

He also went on to claim that India gets 71 per cent of all H1B visas while China accounts for only 12 per cent of the same.

Brat then warns that such entries take away the jobs and the abilit...