Vance slams tech companies for replacing American workers with H1-B visa holders

Vice President JD Vance slammed American companies taking advantage of the H1-B visa program by firing off American workers, only to then hire a massive number of H1-B visa holders from other countries.

"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," Vance said at the Hill and Valley Forum. Although Vance did not say it directly, Microsoft said earlier in July the firm would be laying off 9,000 workers.

JD Vance: “What the President has said, he said very clearly, we want the very best and the brightest to make America their home … But I don’t want companies to fire 9000 American workers and then to go and say ‘We can’t find workers here in America.’”

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