Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), the chair and ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, pressed several major tech companies Wednesday about their reliance on the H-1B visa program amid recent layoffs.

The senators sent letters to top executives at Amazon, Apple, Cognizant, Google, Meta and Microsoft, as well as Deloitte, JPMorgan Chase, Tata Consultancy Services and Walmart.

“We are concerned about some troubling employment trends in the tech industry,” Grassley and Durbin wrote to Amazon CEO Andy Jassy, pointing to reports of

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