{"id":2678979,"date":"2026-10-08T14:39:20","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T18:39:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/breaking-trump-administration-shuts-down-big-tech-visa-fraud\/"},"modified":"2026-10-08T14:44:00","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T18:44:00","slug":"breaking-trump-administration-shuts-down-big-tech-visa-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/breaking-trump-administration-shuts-down-big-tech-visa-fraud\/","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: Trump Administration Shuts Down Big-Tech Visa Fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbreaking-trump-administration-shuts-down-big-tech-visa-fraud%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2678979&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>the article reports that Labor Secretary Keith Sonderling announced a US government crackdown on several major technology companies for suspected visa fraud and abuse. The administration is suspending firms like Cognizant, Infosys, Tata, Wipro, HCL, and Capgemini from the Permanent Labor Certification Program, citing ongoing criminal investigations. Microsoft and Adobe are also affected due to active federal probes. The companies have requested nearly three million foreign workers and obtained over 100,000 labor certifications as 2009.<\/p>\n<p>Vice President J.D. Vance also highlighted investigations into nine American universities-harvard, Yale, Stanford, Brown, the University of Pittsburgh, UC Davis, Caltech, Arizona State, and MIT-for overusing J1 visas at rates substantially above the national average. Vance accused these institutions of using visas to undercut wages for American graduate students and researchers, with the goal of protecting American jobs. Both officials emphasized a need to prioritize American workers and suggested that corrupt or unfair visa practices must be stopped to protect US interests.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><br \/>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\"><br \/>\n<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><html><body><\/p>\n<section> \t\t\t\t<script>console.log(\"ad slot (AC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC3)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>Labor Secretary Keith Sonderling announced Thursday that the Trump administration is launching a sweeping visa crackdown against several major technology firms for fraud and abuse.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis administration knows that American workers are the best and the brightest in the world,\u201d Sonderling said during a news conference. \u201cThese jobs that were stolen from them should have gone, and will now go, to Americans first \u2014 not foreigners, and especially not foreign fraudsters.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He thanked President Donald Trump and Vice President J.D. Vance for their help in\u00a0 \u201ccutting off the head of the snake,\u201d and said findings from various \u201congoing criminal investigations\u201d triggered the decision.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am hereby suspending from the Permanent Labor Certification Program some of the largest IT outsourcing firms in the world,\u201d he declared. \u201cCognizant, Infosys, Tata, Wipro, HCL, and Capgemini \u2014 and also, due to multiple active federal investigations, the Department of Labor is suspending Microsoft and Adobe from the program.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">BREAKING: Secretary of Labor Keith Sonderling: \u201cI am hereby suspending from the Permanent Labor Certification Program some of the largest IT outsourcing firms in the world \u2014 Cognizant, Infosys, Tata, Wipro, HCL, and Capgemini \u2014 and also, due to multiple active federal investigations, the Department of Labor is suspending Microsoft and Adobe from the program.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breaking911 (@Breaking911) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Breaking911\/status\/2108211387449172061?\">October 8, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Sonderling said those companies have requested almost three million foreign workers and have received over 100,000 permanent labor certifications since 2009.<\/p>\n<p>Vance spoke during the news conference as well about H1-B visa fraud. He also announced a major investigation into nine American universities that are using J1 visas at exorbitantly high rates and \u201cundercutting\u201d wages for graduate students.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese universities are employing J1 visas for federally funded grants at a rate of about 61 percent. The national average is 38 percent. So something weird is going on at these universities!\u201d the vice president said.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\ud83d\udea8 NOW: VP JD Vance announces federal investigations into 9 UNIVERSITIES for visa fraud and undercutting American citizens<\/p>\n<p>Harvard, Yale, Stanford, Brown, the University of Pittsburgh, UC Davis, Caltech, Arizona State, and MIT<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese universities are employing J1 visas for federally funded grants at a rate of about 61%. The national average is 38%. So something weird is going on at these universities!\u201d \ud83d\udcaf<\/p>\n<p>FAFO!!<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019re using these visas way too much. They\u2019re using them to undercut the wages of American grad students and American researchers. And it simply has to stop.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>OUR tax dollars fund these grants. They should be going to American students, not <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-releases-list-of-president-trumps-accomplishments-and-it-is-historic\/\" title=\"White House Releases List of President Trump\u2019s Accomplishments \u2013  And It Is Historic!\">cheap foreign labor<\/a> and INDENTURED SERVANTS<\/p>\n<p>Same day Microsoft lost PERM. The fraud task force is on a roll!<\/p>\n<p>Put Americans first or they should GET DEFUNDED. 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