“Our ​message to Microsoft is: You’re a great American company, ​but you’ve got to hire great American workers”

Yeah... Something tells me they're not willing to pay great American salaries: low though they are by first world standards, they're still too high for any self-respecting late-stage capitalist.

I thought they didn't need skilled employees anymore because AI is replacing all their skilled jobs.

Once again.. Actually, Indians.

Lot of companies missing from that list. Wonder why.

Court case incoming in 3...2...

While I don't have a lot of faith in the SCOTUS, I somehow doubt even Roberts is going to be able to invent an argument which gives the President this sort of control over the H1B program. But, who knows. The Court has been deep-throating that "Unitary Executive" cock pretty hard.

Also:

The other firms being suspended from the program include Capgemini, Cognizant, HCL, Infosys, Tata, and Wipro.

I'm pretty sure Infosys's and Tata's entire business model is H1B visas and hoping their customers will just revert and do the needful when those two companies' attempts at anything completely shit the bed. A lot of companies are going to be forced to discover that nothing might actually be better than a contract with one of those companies.

Just give them citizenship, then they'll be skilled American workers instead of skilled foreign workers.

Stopped clock and all that. Last ditch effort before midterms, perhaps.

The tech firms have been bleating for decades about the lack of skilled workers and at the same time regularly going through layoffs and insisting on RTO.

Good. I remember being at a company where the requirement to prove a US worker wasn’t available first was to literally put an ad in a newspaper. In the 2020s..

That will make the US tech industry sad, because the H-1B visa system serves to suppresses wages. The visa holders aren’t to blame for it of course, despite the two-faced, self-serving right-wing rhetoric.

Well broken clock and all but still fuck the Trump administration. They didn't do this to help American workers but out racism. If they really wanted to help they raise the minimum wage to livable wage. And also made sure tech workers were shielded from fucking AI.