MEDIA: Microsoft Layoffs of 9K Stir Criticism of H-1B Visa Use

Newsmax's Solange Reyner on whether Donald Trump will order Kristi
Noem to order Joseph Edlow's USCIS.GOV to report on the number of
Cheap Labor Lobby's scab workers who self-deported following recent
RIFs:
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| Microsoft's layoffs of about 9,000 employees have sparked strong
| reactions online, with some social media users questioning the tech
| giant's H-1B hirings, according to media reports.
|
| Microsoft was one of the top 20 companies as listed by the number of
| H-1B petitions for initial employment the U.S. approved in fiscal
| 2024, with 1,264 H-1Bs approved, according to CBS News.
|
| According to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, the program,
| which applies to employers seeking to hire nonimmigrant aliens as
| workers in specialty occupations or as fashion models of
| distinguished merit and ability, is capped at 65,000 new visas each
| year, although 20,000 others can be issued for those with a master's
| degree or higher.

Did NeverBackDown.ORG's Ken Cuccinelli and Steve Cortes advise Casey
DeSantis to disaptch Ron to David McIntosh's ClubForGrowth.ORG to beg
for permission to use the campaign donations from the likes of Miriam
Adelson, Edward DeBartolo, Robert Bigelow, Walter Buckley, Betsy DeVos,
Julie Jenkins Fancelli, Ken Griffin, Julia Koch, Bernie Marcus, Lachlan
Murdoch, Thomas Peterffy, Bruce Rauner, Chris Reyes, David Sacks and
Steve Wynn to buy campaign advertisements on Murdoch's FoxNews.COM
electronic billboard featuring the likes of Mike Emmons impeaching
Donald Trump for lowering the barrier to entry to the Cheap Labor
Lobby's H-1B scab worker import quota lottery without converting it to
a wage-ordered queue?
John
groenveld@acm.org
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"In 2017-18 over 60k people perished due to the flu. Many of these
were octagenarians in the prime of their lives. How many of these
deaths could have been prevented by shutting down the economy back
then and installing contact tracing apps designed by h1bs?" - Darren
Beattie
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