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No more tech hiring in India, Donald Trump tells Google, Microsoft and others to focus on Americans

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1mo ago

No more tech hiring in India, Donald Trump tells Google, Microsoft and others to focus on Americans

www.indiatoday.in /technology/news/story/no-more-tech-hiring-in-india-donald-trump-tells-google-apple-and-others-to-focus-on-americans-2760486-2025-07-24

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Said with a straight face, to Google and Microsoft CEOs who are both from India
- I think I recently saw Microsoft put a request for 3x h4b visas more than the number of engineers they fired in the most recent firing wave.
  Pretty sure it was rubber stamped.
  
  They fire h1b folks too. I remember in 2014 when they fired several thousand people one guy from I dis was a new dad and suddenly he had no job and a deadline to find a new job that would “sponsor” him or else he and his family had to return to India. It was like 90 days or something. I still think about him sometimes and hope he’s ok.
  
  This is another instance where you need to focus on what Trump does, not what he says.
Are these hordes of unemployed cheap tech people in the room with us?
- Hordes of unemployed tech? Yes. Cheap? No. Good thing tech can afford to pay Americans.
- There are hordes of unemployed techies for sure. American companies have been outsourcing everything and laying off everyone left and right. Everyone feels like it's only a matter of time before they're sent off.
In addition, Trump expressed dislike for the term "artificial intelligence" itself, saying he preferred a name that better shows the intelligence and power of the technology. “It’s not artificial, it’s genius,” he said.
So, like he wanted to rename Gulf of Mexico, now he will sign a decree forcing everyone to use GI (Genius Intelligence) instead of AI (or A1 if you ask his entourage)
- He's got a great GI tract! The best ever!
- Just unimaginably fucking stupid
- A1 Sauce will rule the world.
- SGI (if you really can't figure it out, stable genius intelligence)
This is just Trump bullshitting. He's not rolling back H1B or anything.
How does number go up when payroll is big?
- Tax cuts and bail outs.
  
  Actually that’s the “problem” isnt it. There’s a tax loophole for tech industry payroll that was recently closed up if I recall correctly.
Feels like they took a look at the lump of labor fallacy and said, "How could we structure the country so that jobs really are finite?"
Most big tech and other Fortune 500 companies open offices or outsource their network ops to Asia already, so there is no need for visas. Good luck getting those jobs back. Source: I work in telecom.
This will just further the business model of "We offer AI, but actually it's just Indians" with big tech companies gladly looking past the AI not being really AI
lol they won’t. Also, enough folks from India are here in the NW that there are minority support groups that specifically exclude them because otherwise they get very little representation. I believe the phrase is “non-Asian minority”, or similar.

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