Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced on April 30 an expansion of an H-1B visa fraud probe to include almost 30 North Texas businesses. In a statement, Paxton said that Civil Investigative Demands had been issued to those businesses as an extension of an investigation into suspected fraud and abuse of the H-1B visa program, which began earlier with a focus on three companies. The demands, part of noncriminal investigations, are government requests for information issued before filing formal complaints or lawsuits. According to Paxton, the expanded list of companies is suspected of engaging in fraudulent practices designed to exploit the H-1B visa program....