Vance Blocks Visas for Microsoft and Indian Staffing Companies
Vice President JD Vance and Attorney General Todd Blanche on Thursday vehemently slammed the corporate exploitation of the H-1B and J-1 visa programs that have sidelined a huge number of American professionals.
Secretary of Labor Keith Sonderling also announced he would block the government award of residency visas to foreign workers at Microsoft, Adobe, and five of the biggest Indian-run staffing companies.
“The H-1B visa program is meant to allow companies to bring in really the best of the best from outside the United States of America for positions that are completely impossible to fill with American workers, said Vance, adding:
Unfortunately, the program has become rife with fraud over the last several years, probably the last several decades … Microsoft laid off last year 6,000 American workers. At the same time, the company benefited from 6,300 H-1B visas and almost 3,000 green cards [for foreign workers]. … If you do the math, for every worker that Microsoft laid off, they replace that worker with one and a half foreign indentured servants...