Post by @cardboardboxfort@lemmy.world

2026-10-09 13:48 UTC

U.S. suspends Microsoft, Adobe from green card labor program in foreign worker crackdown 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. cnbc.com/…/microsoft-adobe-green-card-labor-suspe…

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@NathanRanch@lemmy.zip 2026-10-09 20:49

Horses out of the barn, etc, etc. The money is gone that would go to these Americans replacing visa holders. The American workers will want more money, and do less work. This is about as realistic as Americans doing their own farming after kicking out all the Mexicans. After AI, what money or interest will remain in the American IT sector? Honestly the visa holders might be in better shape. They’ll take their hard earned skill back to wherever and work even harder - well before problemd here arise. Well be fighting the low wage jobs they’re being taken away from, and probably won’t match it in quality or quantity. Furthermore this arrangement exists because we needed it and it could be made possible in the first place. There was no scheme to replace the American worker, that’s just how capitalism works. If it’s literally cheaper to import labor, it’s not objectively the companies fault, it just became good business. It’s called a Nash equilibrium. Neither side could be better off without making something worse off at the same time. We sleepwalked into this, there is some blame, but by far it was a team effort.

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@Tattorack@lemmy.world 2026-10-10 04:41

Does this mean they’ll be forced to hire locally with a fair wage, right? 😃 … They’ll hire locally at a fair wage… Right…? 😐

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@CountVlad47@feddit.org 2026-10-09 16:52

I know this is off topic, but Vance and the other guy in the background look very confused about what’s being said.

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