The U.S. Department of Labor announced it would suspend Microsoft and Adobe from its Permanent Labor Certification program on Thursday, Labor Secretary Keith Sonderling said, as the Trump administration continues to take aim at immigration and foreign hiring programs ahead of November’s midterm elections.
Sonderling said the Labor Department won’t accept or process any new applications under the program for a host of companies, including Cognizant, Infosys, Capgemini, Tata, Wipro and HCL.
The secretary said Adobe and Microsoft were also suspended “due to multiple active federal investigations.”
“Since 2009, just these companies alone have requested almost 3 million foreign workers. They’ve received over 230,000 H-1B visas approvals and over 100,000 permanent labor certifications. That’s hundreds of thousands of jobs that were taken from American workers,” Sonderling said.
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/10/08/microsoft-adobe-green-card-labor-suspension.html
I’m surprised. This actually has teeth.
Many of these companies literally have the business model of letting you replace your expensive American tech people with cheaper foreign ones, either importing them as H1B or offshore remote.
I promise you there weren’t 3 million jobs that NO American tech workers were qualified for. There wasn’t 230k or 100k either.
What there was, is 3 million positions that the companies didn’t want to pay American salaries for.
So they post the job like ‘experienced tech needed. Must know (laundry list of 20 different systems) intricately. 10+ years experience preferred. Starting salary $45k’ and they get no applications because that skill set requirement is a $100k-$200k position. So they claim there’s no Americans to do the job and get H1B approval.
Yup, it’s slave labor by a different name. Time the public starts instilling some fear into the hearts of these corporations. No more free rides at the working classes expense.
If you bribe Trump, it goes away