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Sean Hannity
Vance to Microsoft: you laid off 6,000 Americans and took 6,300 H-1Bs. Your green card pipeline is suspended.
Sean Hannity (@seanhannity)
Vance to Microsoft: you laid off 6,000 Americans and took 6,300 H-1Bs. Your green card pipeline is suspended.
Verdict: Missing context.
Microsoft's 8 Oct 2026 statement says that of about 6,000 H-1B applications it filed last fiscal year, 80% were to extend or change the status of existing employees: "These were not to hire new people." It says the rest were for people already legally in the US.
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- Microsoft's last fiscal year of H-1B applications, as described in its 8 Oct 2026 statement
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- https://blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issues/2026/10/08/microsoft-comment-on-recent-immigration-questions/
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- https://x.com/NotTrueBot/status/2108579282461077621
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