WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s administration is suspending tech giant Microsoft from a program to apply for green cards for workers who come to the U.S. to live and work using an H-1B visa as it accuses the company of fraud.
\n\n“If you do the math, for every worker that Microsoft laid off, they replaced that worker with one and a half foreign indentured servants,” said Vice President JD Vance in a White House news conference announcing the decision.
\n\nThe H-1B program has long been a target of Trump supporters who say that the program undercuts American workers and is rife with abuse.
\n\nH-1B visas are meant for high-skilled jobs that are difficult to find American workers to fill. Technology companies are the biggest users, with nearly three-quarters of approvals going to workers from India.
\n\nMicrosoft did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
\n\nThe Vance announcement came one day after Trump’s Republican administration launched another broadside against international students and their ability to work in the U.S.
\n\nThe Department of Homeland Security on Wednesday proposed a $70,000 fee for international students seeking to work in the United States. The proposed rule would require schools to pay the fee…
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