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Trump Praises Immigrant Tech CEOs While Cracking Down On Foreign Workers
- •US President Donald Trump celebrated immigrant technology leaders like Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and Google CEO Sundar Pichai, praising their contributions to American innovation and artificial intelligence.
- •Hours after honoring Satya Nadella with the National Medal of Technology and Innovation, the administration suspended Microsoft and several other companies from a key employment-based green-card program.
- •Vice President JD Vance accused Microsoft and other tech firms of abusing the foreign-worker system and displacing American employees, citing layoff and visa figures.
- •Microsoft defended its practices, stating that the vast majority of its H-1B applications were used to extend the status of existing employees rather than recruit new ones.
- •The administration's policy highlights a core tension: celebrating elite immigrant executives while tightening immigration and green-card pathways for skilled foreign workers.
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The US Department of Labor suspended Microsoft, Adobe, Cognizant, Infosys, Tata Consultancy Services, Wipro, HCL Technologies, and Capgemini from the Permanent Labor Certification, or PERM, programme to crack down on alleged system abuse and protect domestic workers.
Vice President JD Vance accused Microsoft of abusing the foreign-worker system by laying off 6,000 American workers last year while simultaneously benefiting from 6,300 H-1B visas and nearly 3,000 green cards.
Hours after the administration announced the green-card suspension against Microsoft, President Trump honored CEO Satya Nadella with the National Medal of Technology and Innovation, praising his three-decade leadership in cloud computing and advanced artificial intelligence.
