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Jonah Apel


NextImg:Tech Companies Are Laying Off Americans to Replace Them With H-1B Workers, Vance Warns

Vice President JD Vance has castigated U.S. tech companies for laying off thousands of American workers to replace them with H-1B visa workers. Addressing an AI conference on Wednesday, Vance said, “You see some big tech companies where they’ll lay off 9,000 workers, and then they’ll apply for a bunch of overseas visas. And I sort of wonder; that doesn’t totally make sense to me.”

The vice president went on to explain that “we want the very best and brightest to make America their home, … but I don’t want companies to fire 9,000 American workers and then to go and say, ‘We can’t find workers here in America.’ That’s a bulls**t story.”

While Vance’s criticisms of big tech companies are applicable to the industry generally, his example referred to Microsoft’s announcement this month of another round of 9,000 layoffs, following previous layoffs in May and June.

Microsoft has been conducting these layoffs despite achieving record profits and record market capitalization. Earlier this year, the company also announced a $3 billion investment in India cloud and AI infrastructure over the next two years.

Simultaneously, Microsoft has applied for 4776 labor condition applications for H-1B visas this fiscal year, with some reports suggesting they are “seeking approval for 14,181 new H-1B visa hires in 2025.”

Last fiscal year, Microsoft was certified for 9491 labor condition applications for H-1B jobs.

Microsoft is hardly the only tech company engaging in these tactics, which are aimed at driving down its labor costs. Tesla similarly replaced many U.S. employees that it laid off last year with foreign workers using H-1B visas.

Rather than hiring and retaining American workers, Tesla’s CEO Elon Musk has aggressively campaigned to increase H-1B visa caps. While new H-1B visas are capped at 65,000 per year, 600,000 foreign workers currently hold H-1B visas.

Even as many tech companies have been conducting massive layoffs for several years, including more than 150,000 job cuts last year, technology sectors continue to be the fields requesting the most H-1B visas. Large tech companies such as Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft, and IBM were all among the top 10 H-1B beneficiaries approved last fiscal year.

As tech companies hire thousands of foreign workers, America’s recent college graduates in STEM fields such as physics, computer engineering, computer science, and chemistry are facing some of the highest unemployment rates among college graduates aged 22 to 27. For American citizens, “learning to code” is no longer a sure way to find a job.

Trump also criticized U.S. tech companies this week for not prioritizing their fellow countrymen. Addressing the same AI summit on Wednesday, Trump said, “For too long, much of our tech industry pursued a radical globalism that left millions of Americans feeling distrustful and betrayed.”

The president added that “many of our largest tech companies have reaped the blessings of American freedom while building their factories in China, hiring workers in India. … We need U.S. technology companies to be all in for America.”

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