JD Vance’s attack on Microsoft was deeply disingenuous, and Microsoft’s response exposes the fundamental flaw in his argument.
Vance compared layoffs with H-1B filings as though every visa petition represented an American worker being replaced.
Here is what Microsoft actually said:
“Of the approximately 6,000 H-1B visa applications we submitted in the last fiscal year, 80% percent were to extend or change the status of existing Microsoft employees. These were not to hire new people. The remaining filings for new employees were for individuals already legally in the United States who decided to come work for us, and they equal only 1% of our U.S. workforce. They are not new arrivals to our country.”
An extension is not a new hire. A visa transfer is not evidence of an American losing a job. And an H-1B petition is not proof of displacement.
If you want to investigate actual fraud, investigate it. If you want to protect American workers, protect them.
But don’t manipulate immigration statistics to manufacture a scandal.
America deserves an immigration debate grounded in facts, not political theater dressed up as arithmetic.
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