Vice President JD Vance launched a withering critique of Microsoft on Wednesday, accusing the tech giant of letting go of American workers while relying heavily on immigrant labor through the H-1B visa program.
Speaking at a bipartisan event co-hosted by the Hill and Valley Forum, Vance questioned the ethics and economic logic behind mass layoffs followed by increased applications for employment-based visas.
"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.
"That displacement and that math worries me a bit. And what the president has said, he said very clearly: We want the very best and the brightest to make America their home. We want them to build great companies and so forth. 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 bullshit story."
🚨 JD VANCE SCORCHES VISA SYSTEM: "Big tech companies will lay off 9,000 [American] workers and then they'll apply for a bunch of overseas visas! [...] I don't want companies to fire 9,000 American workers, and then to go and say, can't find workers here in America. That's a… pic.twitter.com/NBZUK5m6WW
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