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
This would turn into us mindlessly reacting to each other eventually, so I’ll end it and leave you with this. Migrants, make labor cheaper, I would probably cost twice as much to make Americans harvest in the same efficiency as compared to people doing it now. That would drive up costs as to be unacceptable, so it’s never going to happen. You’re looking at this from the wrong way around. The same exact problem has manifested in tech now too. If they could, we’d all be replaced with indians by now. Indians in India will reckon with this new change, and like an addict getting off a dependency, they will move onto better things. They won’t have a choice. While they’re getting their shit straight because the cashflow stopped, we’re still pretending everything is okay. I don’t see a realistic way out of this hell we’ve created for ourselves, but strawmanning indians and India will do nothing.