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 is a fun little fault line, because leftists can take both sides. They can be for it because obviously America First is some racist bullshit. Or they can be against it, because H1B’s are used by evil corporations to depress wages.
Anyway, from what I’ve read, and from what I know how the world works, the latter option is much more convincing. And it’s buttressed by my working for a very large corporation that had its entire IT Support staff come from India, including entry-level support staff that could easily have been filled by native workers.
And, that said, I think the dividing line between authoritarianism and fascism might have something to do with fascists being willing to lose money for corporations, and this tells me that we are definitevely entering an explicitly fascist era, so I am not celebrating.