Approximately 32,000 J1 visa holders worked as camp counselors in 2025.
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Bannon`s War RoomAug 17, 2026
The 32,000 camp-counselor figure for 2025 appears in the CIS report and is repeated by the WOAI piece, and the claim faithfully matches the passage's 'Another 32,000 were working as camp counselors.' Both supporting sources trace back to the same CIS figure, the official BridgeUSA page does not show the number in the retrieved text, and older ACA and Wikipedia.
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 illegal immigration. …
Bannon`s War Room · · from the transcriptPost →What we found
Supports. The CIS report states that 32,000 J-1 exchange visitors worked as camp counselors, alongside 105,000 in Summer Work Travel, as the two biggest J-1 programs in 2025.[3]
Supports. A WOAI broadcast piece citing the 275,000 J-1 visas issued in 2025 says another 32,000 went to foreign camp counselors, matching the claimed figure.[2]
Context. The State Department's BridgeUSA facts-and-figures page for 2015-2025 includes a camp counselor flyer for 2025, but the retrieved text does not display the count, so it neither confirms nor refutes the figure.[1]
Context. Older figures from the American Camp Association (about 23,000 placed per year, as of 2022) and Wikipedia (21,810 in 2022) refer to a different year and do not contradict a 2025 count of 32,000.[4][5]
Context. The WOAI figure likely echoes the CIS report rather than providing independent corroboration, and the CIS is an advocacy-oriented, unrated source, so the support is directional rather than independently confirmed.[2][3]
Sources
5 sources: 1 primary, 3 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
- 4J-1 Visa Update | American Camp Associationacacamps.org · not rated · cited for: context
- 5J-1 visa - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org · not rated · cited for: context
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- Approximately 100,000 J1 visa holders worked summer jobs in 2025.True
- The United States admitted more than 275,000 people on J1 exchange visas in 2025.True
- The State Department runs a program that places 32,000 camp counselors and 10,000 au pairs in the United States.Mixed
- More than 10,000 J1 visa holders work as nannies every year.Can’t tell
- More than 75% of people entering the United States on exchange visitor visas are working as cheap labor for employers.Mixed