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U.S. suspends Microsoft, Adobe from green card labor program in foreign worker crackdown (www.cnbc.com)
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The U.S. Department of Labor announced it would suspend Microsoft and Adobe from its Permanent Labor Certification program on Thursday, Labor Secretary Keith Sonderling said, as the Trump administration continues to take aim at immigration and foreign hiring programs ahead of November’s midterm elections.

Sonderling said the Labor Department won’t accept or process any new applications under the program for a host of companies, including Cognizant, Infosys, Capgemini, Tata, Wipro and HCL.

The secretary said Adobe and Microsoft were also suspended “due to multiple active federal investigations.”

“Since 2009, just these companies alone have requested almost 3 million foreign workers. They’ve received over 230,000 H-1B visas approvals and over 100,000 permanent labor certifications. That’s hundreds of thousands of jobs that were taken from American workers,” Sonderling said.

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/10/08/microsoft-adobe-green-card-labor-suspension.html

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[–] SirEDCaLot@lemmy.today 27 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Americans either didn’t want or didn’t qualify for these jobs, no employer goes through the visa process to stick it to Americans, it’s a giant pain in the ass.

Americans didn't want those jobs at the salary they were offering. That's the kicker.
The visa process may be a pain. But with a company like Tata to help you with it or do it for you, you can end up paying that H1B worker MUCH less than you would an American. And because their H1B is tied to their employment they won't rock the boat because getting fired means having to leave the USA.

[–] ShredderFeeder@shredderfood.net 13 points 2 weeks ago

Exactly this. These fucking companies use H1B's to hire 40k workers for 80k jobs...the problem is, they end up getting 40K workers trying to do jobs they're largely not qualified to do, but since we have no real way of vetting them, they come in with a 'fake it until you make it' mentality...