Approximately 100,000 J1 visa holders worked summer jobs in 2025.
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Bannon`s War RoomAug 17, 2026
Sources on the 2025 J-1 program put the Summer Work Travel count at about 105,000, which matches the claim's 'approximately 100,000' within rounding. The figures come from a CIS report and a secondary news piece that repeats it, not from an official BridgeUSA table, so confidence is moderate.
What was said
… So, every year, we admit more than 275,000 people. That was the last number in 2025: 275,000 people in one year on these J1 exchange visas. That's not counting any family they bring with them. About 100,000 of them were working these summer jobs. Another 32,000 were working as camp counselors. There's more than 10,000 opers working as nannies every year, and this category has three times the overstay rate of any other category of temporary visa, so that's a significant risk as well, contributing to …
Bannon`s War Room · · from the transcriptPost →What we found
Supports. The CIS report states that in 2025 about half of J-1 exchange visitors came to work summer jobs, with 105,000 under the Summer Work Travel program.[3]
Supports. WOAI reports that Summer Work Travel accounted for 105,000 of the 275,000 J-1 visas issued in 2025, making it the largest J-1 category.[2]
Context. The State Department BridgeUSA page covers J-1 numbers for 2015-2025 but the captured text does not show the Summer Work Travel count, so it neither confirms nor disputes the figure.[1]
Context. The 2025 figure of about 105,000 is an approximation of the claimant's 'about 100,000'. The post itself says 'About 100,000 of them were working these summer jobs' in the context of 2025 J-1 visas, so the extraction matches the passage.[2][3]
Sources
3 sources: 1 primary, 1 not rated, 1 rated low
- 1Facts and Figures 2015-2025 - BridgeUSAj1visa.state.gov · primary source · cited for: context
- 2The J-1 Visa Program Problem | News Radio 1200 WOAI | San Antonio's First Newswoai.iheart.com · not rated · cited for: supports, context
- 3Exchange Visa Programs Operate Mainly For Cheap Labor, Not ...cis.org · rated low for factual reporting by Media Bias/Fact Check · cited for: supports, context
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