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Vice President JD Vance vowed Thursday to shut down a key pipeline immigrant workers use for permanent status.

Flanked at a White House press conference by FTC Chairman Andrew Ferguson, Attorney General Todd Blanche, Labor Secretary Keith Sonderling, Labor Inspector General Anthony D’Esposito, and senior adviser to the president Stephen Miller, Vance said the government will block major companies like Microsoft and Adobe from applying for permanent status for hundreds of thousands of workers in the country on H-1B visas.

“The H-1B visa program is meant to allow companies to bring in really the best of the best from outside the United States of America for positions that are completely impossible to fill with American workers,” Vance said. “Unfortunately, the program has become rife with fraud over the last several years, probably the last several decades.”

According to the vice president, companies like Microsoft have been firing American workers and replacing them with more foreign workers on H-1B visas, meant for highly skilled workers in specialty occupations such as technology, science, and finance. Last year, the Trump administration added a $100,000 fee per visa, but the executive order is on hold pending litigation. The U.S. government caps the overall H-1B visas at 65,000 annually, plus another 20,000 for applicants with a master’s degree or higher from an American university. An H-1B visa holder has it for three years and can extend beyond that. Afterward, companies and their workers may apply........

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