White House cracks down on student visas at Stanford and Caltech, as well as tech work visas

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Set us as preferred The White House is expanding its campaign against international workers, targeting elite study and work visa holders with restrictions and a new investigation.On Thursday, the Trump administration announced a probe into whether Stanford, Caltech, UC Davis and other universities across the country have been abusing the use of a special visa that allows international scholars and students to do research and work in the U.S.It is also suspending Microsoft, Adobe and six other tech companies from how they sponsor employees who are in the country under a highly skilled worker visa program.

The White House’s concern is that schools and companies are too quick to bring in people from outside the U.S.The moves rattled Silicon Valley executives and California educators who see easy access to the smartest, hardest-working people in the world as one of America’s greatest competitive advantages.

Vice President JD Vance said the universities being investigated are overusing J-1 visas to bring in students and researchers from abroad.The international scholars then take jobs and grants that could go to Americans.

“They are using these visas way too much,” he said.“They are using them to undercut the wages of American grad students and American researchers, and it simply has to stop.”Harvard, Yale, Brown, the University of Pittsburgh, Arizona State and MIT will also be investigated.

Labor Department Inspector General Anthony D’Esposito said subpoenas have been served and “nobody will be getting a free pass because their name is carved into an expensive building.” Many universities have buildings named for foreign donors.While most of the companies targeted for the tech visa restriction were Indian, Vance called out Microsoft.“There’s been no company, unfortunately, in the United States that has ab...