The Trump administration blocked multiple tech companies, including Microsoft and Adobe, from applying for green cards for their H-1B visa holders Thursday, saying jobs would not be stolen from American workers any longer. In an announcement led by Vice President JD Vance, officials said companies seen as using the green card pathway for foreign workers as a way to hire cheap labor and undercut American workers would have their access to the PERM program suspended. Vance used Microsoft as a key example of the alleged abuse of the system, with the tech giant having laid off thousands of workers in the past year while still applying for H-1B visas and subsequent green cards.
"Now, our message to Microsoft and to any other foreign or domestic corporation is quite simple: We obviously want you to thrive in the United States of America," Vance said. "We want people to invest in the United States of America, particularly the American technology sector. We are the biggest boosters of your industry.
We want you to continue to grow and to employ a lot of people, but we want you to employ American workers," Vance said. "And so, our message to Microsoft is you're a great American company, but you've got to hire great American workers." Newsweek reached out to Microsoft and Adobe for comment via email Thursday morning. This is a breaking news story.
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