U.S. tech giants have been sacking employees in droves while simultaneously importing tens of thousands of foreign workers.
Amazon, Google and Microsoft have laid off at least 27,000, 12,000 and 16,000 employees, respectively, since 2022. However, in that same roughly three-year period, the companies have secured at least 61,000 H-1B visas combined for foreign workers, according to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services.
“At the same time large tech companies are laying people off they are claiming they don’t have sufficient workers,” Eric Ruark, director of research and public relations for NumbersUSA, told the Daily Caller News Foundation. “The H-1B program is designed specifically to allow employers to replace and displace qualified American workers with cheaper, often less competent foreign guest workers.”
