US Suspends Microsoft, Adobe From Green Card Program
The Facts
- U.S. Vice President JD Vance and Labor Secretary Keith Sonderling said Thursday the administration is suspending Microsoft, Adobe and several IT outsourcing firms from the permanent labor certification program, which precedes employer-sponsored green cards.
- Microsoft laid off 6,000 American workers last year and obtained 6,300 H-1B visas and nearly 3,000 green cards, Vance said, describing a system in which each laid-off worker was replaced by "one and a half foreign indentured servants."
- Microsoft said about 80% of the roughly 6,000 H-1B applications it filed in the last fiscal year were to "extend or change the status of existing Microsoft employees," and that it pays H-1B workers the same as others doing comparable work.
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The Spin
Pro-establishment narrative
A skilled-worker visa pipeline was never meant to be a cheap labor conveyor belt, and letting staffing shops pose as innovators cheated American tech workers out of jobs. Suspending the biggest offenders from the green card process finally puts real consequences behind the rules. This blunt enforcement is long overdue, and American workers come first.
Establishment-critical narrative
Punishing companies that follow the legal process is a bizarre way to fix immigration, since the Permanent Labor Certification program already demands proof that no qualified American gets passed over. Freezing green card sponsorship leaves skilled workers who played by the rules stuck in limbo and hands global talent to competitors abroad. An outdated system needs modernizing, not a wrecking ball aimed at legal pathways.
