Posted on 07/04/2025 5:41:09 AM PDT by DFG
Microsoft applied for as many as 6,000 specialized migrant worker visas leading up to a decision to terminate 9,000 jobs globally, according to new reports.
The global tech giant revealed this week it would cut around 4 percent of its global workforce as it ramps up investments in artificial intelligence.
The move has seen loyal, long term American employees lose their livelihoods and sparked unrest at a time when President Donald Trump is trying to ramp up local production and employment.
But data compiled by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service suggests that in the 2025 fiscal year, Microsoft has already applied for 4,712 H1-B visas.
Anecdotal commentary on X among former staff and insiders actually places this number closer to 6,000 - but the exact figure has not been verified.
Suggestions that Microsoft has applied for thousands of H1-B visas would track with historical applications the company has made.
In the 2024 fiscal year, 9,491 H1-B visa applications were filed, and almost all were approved.
The H1-B visa is for skilled foreign workers, and allows companies to sponsor an individual to move to the US for work.
But the visa is often tied to a specific role at a specific company, meaning an employee's right to live in the United States is tied to their employment and, theoretically, making it less likely that they will quit their jobs.
Once their role is terminated, they often have to leave the United States.
'In some sense, there's nothing strange here,' Steven Camarota, director of research at the Center for Immigration Studies, told Newsweek.
'You have a situation where the advocacy or use of guest worker programs is entirely always disconnected from the actual behavior of businesses.
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Step One: Flood the US classrooms with miscreants so our student’s can’t concentrate on their studies.
Step Two: Cue up the “Internationale”.
No
Are they bringing wealth into this country, or out of this country? In=yes, Out=no....
>> Step One: Flood the US classrooms with miscreants so our student’s can’t concentrate on their studies.
Before Step One came Step Zero: Flood the classrooms with woke-indoctrinated teachers incapable of teaching reading, writing and arithmetic, but well-trained to teach children to be ashamed of America and proud of sexual perversion of every sort.
Step Two: Is flood the workforce with “unskilled” and “skilled” immigrant labor. (This disenfranchises _both_ the kids that didn’t learn and the ones who did in Step One.)
Step Three: Cue up the Internationale.
Step One: Flood the US classrooms with miscreants so our student’s can’t concentrate on their studies.
Step Two: Cue up the “Internationale”.
Step Three: Profit!
We need a law that says anyone on an H1-B visa needs to earn at least $200,000 from the company. If the company thinks that is too high, they can hire an American for less. If the foreign workers is really all that special, then the company will be thrilled to get them even at $200,000 a year.
OH HELL NO is more like it
Until Trump came along, they never left.
Selling off the balance sheet assets to fatten the income statement is not a long-term play.
Big tech has turned into a handful of ultra rich and powerful white guys forcing a bunch of Indian young guys to work nights and weekends, implementing clever ways of displaying advertising and censoring common sense. No white guys need apply.
Has any other country in the world brought in non-citizens to take the jobs of its own citizens?
Name me one Indian that is really all that special.
We need to distinguish between foreign companies and workers. I have no problem with Toyota building cars in the U.S. so long as they employ U.S. workers. Worker visas are another story. Worker visas of any sort should be outlawed. Why? Because every foreigner given a visa to work here steals a job from a U.S. citizen. Spare me the argument that we need these foreigners because the U.S. workforce can't meet the demand. This is B.S.
So long as companies like Microsoft and other companies continue to hire foreigners they will skew the demand for U.S. workers and 'disincentive' the training and education of U.S. workers.
MAGA should read - 'Make AMERICANS Great Again.' We aren't making Americans great again when our government allows foreign workers to steal our jobs.
Consider the source...
Exactly. I was in IT for decades. I worked with a lot of Indians and other foreigners. Never met one that was all that special. They’re cheap, and that’s all. They push down wages for everyone and American then find jobs scarce, and if you get the job, it doesn’t pay well because “someone” will work for that low wage.
I say the jobs given to foreigners should be extremely high-cost to the company. Maybe that will provide an incentive to hire Americans instead.
Their Bush the Senior/Bill Clinton model of off-shoring everything possible has always enriched the companies while screwing over local labor who had to either drop living standards and go with service economy jobs or survive on the dole.
Not unlike Communism, they’ll eventually tip the balance to where consumers’ one-way flow of money out of country (while company heads profit) peters out, leaving all parties in a lurch and overthrow of the system inevitable.
President Trump’s trying to reverse that. Microsoft is rebelling against it. “Learn to code” for what, training foreign replacements?
Love the penguin, starve the beast.
All from India ?
Every H1B visa should be tied to an American intern whom the company will train to take over the duties of the visa holder within a proscribed time period.
The H1b scam has got to be shut down. They are directly undercutting American workers. No, its not that they can’t find workers or can’t find qualified workers. Its that they want to operate in America and want access to the American market, but don’t want to pay American wages. What Trump needs to do is put them to the test. Tell companies they can’ have just as many H1bs as they like. No limit at all. Its just that from now on there is a fee of $50,000 per work visa per year. No exemptions. No get outs. The company pays the US Treasury $50K and they get issued one H1b to a foreigner to come work here for a year.
Companies would suddenly discover that not only do they not “need” more H1bs, they don’t even “need” 90% of the ones they currently have. We all know it.
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