not much in there beyond the headline but quotes from the admin

For my friends, everything; for my enemies, the law

Edit: Would love to hear a coherent argument as to why my comment is off topic and deserving of downvotes but I'm sure that won't happen.

  Labor Secretary Keith Sonderling said other companies that would be suspended from the Permanent Labor Certification Program included Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp., Infosys Ltd., Tata, Wipro Ltd., HCL Technologies Ltd., and Capgemini SE. He said there were multiple active federal investigations ongoing into the matter.

The current K shaped economy being just the beginning. The elites realised that making more money wont change much for them, but they can make everyone else poor and then live as feudal lords.

* H1B visas are work permits issued to foreign-born workers sponsored by a company to work in the USA. These visas are bound to a specific employer with limited ability to transfer elsewhere, and on their own have ZERO ability to convert to a Green Card

* Green Card is Legal Permanent Residency (LPR), the first real step towards Naturalization. It lets you live and work anywhere in the USA, provided you generally contribute more than you receive in benefits (though this is very fungible depending on political incentives). Obtaining a Green Card is incredibly hard to do outside of family, with employer sponsorship being one of the few other viable routes.

So what seems to be happening here is that the regime wants to block Microsoft et al for applying for Green Cards for workers currently on H1B visas - not unheard of, but a rarity among the hordes of H1Bs employed yearly by technical firms. I suspect the goal is to discourage workers abroad from applying for H1Bs since employer green card sponsorship is off the table, but it won’t necessarily stop green cards via other routes (like marriage). It also doesn’t address the real grievances around H1Bs themselves, like how it coerces labor into taking more toxic or abusive working environments and lower wages while also robbing domestic workers of opportunities.

In other words, and assuming I’m understanding this messaging correctly (a big if), this is a nothingburger. It doesn’t stop H1B abuse, it doesn’t help American workers, and it punishes the handful of folks who deserve the Green Card conversion from their employers. It’s a packet of lies and misdirection meant to look bigger than it actually is.

This administration is 100% anti-immigrant. It's also incredibly racist. For example, in the last financial year, all but three refugee visas were issues to white South Africans fleeing a completely made up "genocide" [2].

But the H1B/PERM process is absolutely abused although Microsoft wouldn't be top of my list. Top would be all the Indian outsourcing companies (some or all of whom are suspended by this too btw). Here's how it works:

1. File for hundreds of thousands of H1Bs for Indian born engineers and IT professionals;

2. Because the quota has been vastly exceeded a third or less win the "lottery". You, as the employer, don't really care;

3. Bring them to the US and, in many cases, illegally underpay them. For example, withholding wages if they're not outsourced to another company;

4. H1Bs a 3 year visas with a 3 year extension allowed before needing to leave the US for at least a year but there's a loophole that if a PERM is filed for you before the 6 years is up, you can stay in the US until it's resolved. But green cards have per-country quotas (IIRC 7% per country of birth). This creates a massive backlog that will last 10-20+ years in which the employee effectively can't leave. They are essentially in indentured servitude and the employer can underpay and mistreat them without consequence.

This needs reform.

Anyway, if the likes of Tata and Infosys can no longer file green cards, this will kill the H1B funnel. Indian-born professionals won't subject themselves to this pipeline. Or maybe they will in the hopes that a future administration will change it? But if you don't have the green card filed within your 6 years, you need to leave anyway.

I'm generally anti this administration in pretty much every way but I support not being able to file for H1Bs if you've done layoffs in the last ~2 years. Let companies retrain people they've hired. Figure it out.

[1]: https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/business/international-b...

[2]: https://www.npr.org/2026/06/26/nx-s1-5869796/the-white-genoc...

First it's the illegal immigrants. Then the immigrants who use loopholes. Then the immigrants who get abused by service companies.

Now they are after MS employees who happen to be immigrants.

Look in the mirror.