India Slams Vance for ‘Offensive’ Comments on Foreign Workers
· World · Bloomberg, CNBC
India's government criticized US Vice President JD Vance for deeply offensive remarks referring to foreign IT recruits at US software firms as servants. The comments accompanied an announcement on Thursday by Vance and Labor Secretary Keith Sonderling suspending major Indian IT services companies, alongside Microsoft Corp. and Adobe Inc., from a longstanding immigration program. The suspension forms part of a wider US administration crackdown targeting alleged abuses within the H-1B worker visa system.
Why it matters
The suspension of top Indian IT firms from the H-1B immigration program threatens tech operations in the US and heightens diplomatic tensions between New Delhi and Washington.
Read the original report — Bloomberg
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