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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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[–] fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago

There are benifits to working on the same campus. Though the problem with trying to set up office overseas is now you have to flex to their cultural expectations have work with their legal frameworks. You may have to navigate their bribery/lobbying system as well, which might require even more overhead. All of which duplicative if they have to have that somewhere else in order to leverage the much more lucrative investment markets.

These are for profit companies the general motivation for them to do anything is to maximize the extraction of value. You're right, they aren't anti American nor pro immigrant. In a different geopolitical and economic market they would gladly pay warlords to maintain an active slave population as long as doesnt personally effect their social lives and the profit margins were wider then the h1b1 program.