Posted on 04/03/2026 3:39:15 AM PDT by Libloather
As thousands of Oracle employees awoke on Tuesday to an email informing them they were being laid off, the workers likely didn’t know the tech company had been busy trying to hire foreign staff.
According to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services data, Oracle filed for roughly 3,126 petitions to employ H-1B workers in fiscal years 2025 and 2026. Employers must submit the paperwork when seeking to hire foreign workers in specialty occupations like technology. Some 436 of those petitions were filed this year alone.
Amazon, which in January said it would axe 16,000 corporate employees, has filed for some 2,675 H-1B petitions during the same two-year fiscal period. That came on top of news in October that the retail giant was axing 14,000 corporate workers.
News of Oracle’s attempts to bring in foreign workers sparked outrage among some on social media.
One user on the app Blind, an anonymous forum for verified employees, called the H-1B petitions a “slap in our face.”
“If this doesn’t make you angry, maybe you need to read some heartfelt posts on LinkedIn from Oracle employees who are US citizens and have been laid off after working at Oracle for years,” the user wrote.
Another commenter posted on the site: “Look at all big tech companies, they do massive layoffs then rehire at lower salary.”
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
If this doesn’t infuriate you then you are simply not a decent human being.
100% cut
The following are all listed as top users of H1b.
Accenture, Amazon, Apple, Capgemini, Cognizant, Deloitte, Google, HCL, IBM, Infosys, JP MORGAN CHASE, Meta, Microsoft, Oracle, Tata, TCS.
It is curious that different lists have different rankings. Some list Deloitte as #1. Some list Amazon as #1, etc.
Some seem to treat new H1b different than renewals of H1b. Some seem to lump in H2b and other visa classifications.
It is - "AI" = All Indians.
From a March 18, 2026 Drey Dossier article, Do No Harm (Terms and Conditions May Apply)..
On February 11, 2026, CMS (the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services) awarded Oracle the contract to host and modernize its core technology systems. That covers Medicare, Medicaid, the Children’s Health Insurance Program, and the ACA marketplace. Programs that together serve more than 150 million Americans.
There is one document that could answer the most important question in this story: what is Oracle actually allowed to do with your Medicare data?
A federal contract this sensitive should contain specific provisions. What the contractor can and cannot do with the data beyond hosting it. Whether re-identification is prohibited. What audit rights the government retains. What happens if those terms are violated. Those kinds of protections are standard in government data contracts. They are what accountability looks like on paper.
The CMS contract with Oracle has not been publicly disclosed. There is no award notice in SAM.gov, the government’s public contract database. The public learned this contract existed because Oracle published a press release. Not because CMS announced it. I looked for the document. It does not exist in any public database.
That means we do not know what Oracle is contractually permitted to do with the Medicare and Medicaid data of 150 million Americans. We don’t know whether re-identification is prohibited. We don’t know what audit rights exist. We don’t know what the consequences are for a violation. That level of secrecy, for a contract of this magnitude, is not normal.
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