Vice President JD Vance announces the suspension of the PERM Program for Microsoft: "Thanks to an ongoing…

The H -1B visa is how people come into the country. The PERM program is how they stay in the United States to begin with. Now, there has been no company in the United States, unfortunately, that has abused the system more than Microsoft. And let me just give you a couple of statistics on this. So in the last year, Microsoft, and I want to be clear about the data here, so let me check this. But Microsoft laid off last year 6 ,000, 6 ,000 American workers. 1 ,000, 6 ,000 American workers. At the same time, the company benefited from 6 ,300 H -1B visas and almost 3 ,000 green cards. In other words, if you do the math, for every worker that Microsoft laid off, they replaced that worker with one and a half foreign indentured servants. Now, that is a scandalous system that we've allowed in this country for far too long, but thanks to the work of this task force and thanks to the empowerment of the President of the United States, we're going to stop it because thanks to an ongoing investigation, we have decided to suspend the PERM program for Microsoft, to stop it because thanks to an ongoing investigation, we have decided to which means they will no longer be able to apply their they'll no longer be able to take those H1Bs and apply for permanent resident status within the United States of America. Now, our message to Microsoft and to any other foreign or domestic corporation is quite simple. We obviously want you to thrive in the United States of America. We want people to invest in the United States of America, particularly the American technology. sector, we are the biggest boosters of your industry. We want you to continue to grow and to employ a lot of people, but we want you to employ American workers. And so our message to Microsoft is you're a great American company, but you've got to hire great American workers. You cannot lay off American workers and then replace them with foreign indentured servants.

Loaded Language The word 'abused' is emotionally charged and frames Microsoft's legal use of visa programs as misconduct — for example: abused the system more than Microsoft, foreign indentured servants and scandalous system.

Exaggeration/Hyperbole The superlative claim that no company has abused the system 'more than Microsoft' is an absolute statement presented without comprehensive comparative evidence — for example: "there has been no company in the United States, unfortunately, that has abused the system more than Microsoft".

Name Calling Derogatory labels used to discredit a person or group rather than address their arguments.

Card Stacking The sentence presents a mathematical equivalence between layoffs and visa numbers as if the two are directly causal, omitting that layoffs and visa applications are separate processes that may not be directly linked — for example: 'for every worker that Microsoft laid off, they replaced that worker with one and a half foreign indentured servants'

Scapegoating H-1B visa holders are implicitly blamed for American job losses, framing foreign workers as the cause of unemployment rather than addressing broader corporate or economic factors — for example: 'replaced that worker with one and a half foreign indentured servants'

False Urgency The phrase 'for far too long' combined with 'we're going to stop it' creates a sense that immediate action is overdue and must happen now — for example: 'we've allowed in this country for far too long'

Transfer The speaker borrows legitimacy from 'the empowerment of the President of the United States' to validate the action being taken — for example: 'thanks to the empowerment of the President of the United States'

Appeal to Prejudice The repeated emphasis on 'American workers' invokes in-group identity to frame the issue as a matter of national loyalty — for example: American workers, great American workers and great American company.

Glittering Generalities The label 'great American company' is a vague, emotionally positive phrase used rhetorically without substantive meaning in context — for example: 'you're a great American company'

Repetition The phrase 'foreign indentured servants' is used here for the second time in the passage, reinforcing the derogatory framing through deliberate repetition — for example: 'foreign indentured servants'