Is the Trump administration right to accuse Microsoft and Adobe of abusing a U.S. foreign-worker visa program?
The Trump administration accused Microsoft, Adobe and other companies of misusing the PERM program, which puts foreign workers on a pathway to U.S. permanent residency; Vice President JD Vance said the program is being exploited.
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This is such a hard one. The Trump administration is doing this as part of its usual grift to push tech barons to bribe it more. At the same time the entire tech industry very much does lie and cheat at every level of the H1B system both to depress wages AND in their treatment of the foreign workers ensnared in it. While I personally advocate for open borders and the free movement of workers and immigrants. The reality is that the skilled visa system is run as a nested series of for profit grifts specifically to enrich ownership at the cost of everyone else :(
From what I have read of the details it would seem that both companies are following the rules. If the outcomes are not the ones desired, the rules should be changed. If, on the other hand, the government has a case that these companies violated the rules, prosecute them. but don't make shit up as you go along.
I've only been involved with this at Apple and Microsoft but having done time at Amazon I don't have any reason to think it was different there. All of them in my experience break the rules and adhere to a sort of unwritten set of policies and procedures which kinna sorta keep the government from coming down on them. Make no mistake most hiring managers in tech has transgressed, including me, and KNOWS we have done it. But this is just how hiring works in tech and your alternative as a manager is to leave/get fired. It worked that way at Apple, MIcrosoft, Amazon, down to the growing startups.
Thanks for your insight. Nonetheless, this is an enforcement problem. If the rules are being broken they perps need to get whacked.
I would not be surprised. Corporations are functional psychopaths that do whatever they can get away with.