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Fury erupts as US brand fires 1,600 employees after securing thousands of foreign worker visas

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A federal judge in Boston has blocked the Trump administration’s $100,000 H-1B visa fee, stating it is an unauthorized tax without congressional approval. The policy, enacted last year, drastically increased the fee from $2,000-$5,000 to prioritize U.S. citizens. The White House plans to appeal the decision.
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A popular U.S.-based gaming brand owned by Microsoft is facing fury after mass employee layoffs occurred in the wake of the company being approved for thousands of foreign worker visas.
Microsoft announced that it will lay off 4,800 people total and 1,600 from the corporation’s XBOX division, which makes and sells the dominant video game console.
Meanwhile, Microsoft has been approved this year to hire from foreign countries 2,273 employer-sponsored, non-immigrant workers under what is known as the H-1B visa program, according to data from U.S. Citizen and Immigration Services (USCIS).
Furious online critics claim that American jobs are being unfairly handed to foreigners in an effort to cut labor costs but at the cost of leaving U.S. workers in the lurch.
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Asha Sharma, chief executive officer of Xbox,, during the Bloomberg Tech conference in San Francisco, California, US, on Thursday, June 4, 2026. The event brings together the leading CEOs, investors and innovators who are harnessing technology to change the world around us. Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images (David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
«A great way to fix this is to throw anyone doing this in prison,» said one user on X. «Fire Americans to replace with thousands of visa workers? Straight to jail, and assets seized. This story has been told countless times. Fire American staff and hire foreigners. Over and over.»
«It is the fault of our Government [sic] for approving the H-1Bs,» another social media user lamented. «Our Government [sic] has sold us out of jobs at home and those being moved to other countries.»
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Another user described the H-1B program as «industrial scale job theft from Americans.»
Microsoft is the sixth-largest beneficiary of H-1B visas, a program that is overwhelmingly dominated by workers from India. The company has even more H-1B applications pending. Microsoft has employees worldwide, but most are in the United States.
«These decisions are based on business need, not visa status. H-1B employees were also impacted by job eliminations in the U.S.,» a Microsoft spokesperson told Fox News Digital when reached for comment on the lay offs.

Fans compete in a gaming tournament at Microsoft retail store at the Florida Mall on November 21, 2013 in Orlando, Florida and another five cities across the country for a chance to win up to $25,000 in prizes and a chance to participate in a final showdown at the Jacksonville, Fla. Microsoft Store opening, featuring a performance by Macklemore and Ryan Lewis. Tournament finalists will receive an Ultimate Xbox One Gaming House including all launch night titles in each of the six participating stores. (Photo by Gerardo Mora/Getty Images for Microsoft) (Gerardo Mora/Getty Images for Microsoft)
«Every single employer is exploiting the H-1B visa program,» said the Project for Immigration Reform.
A lawmaker even called for a complete end to the non-immigrant visa program.
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«This is INSANE. LEGAL immigration is a major problem. These companies, especially big tech, are abusing these immigration programs to replace American workers with foreign workers,» said Rep. Riley Moore, R-W.Va.
«No more. It’s long past time to end the H-1B scam.»
XBOX CEO Asha Sharma cited the company’s financial health for the layoffs.
«Our business today is not healthy,» said a memo from Sharma, according to The Associated Press. «We are operating at margins that are 3-10x lower than comparable platform and publishing businesses.»
Sharma added that her strategy is to «reset» XBOX.
Some online critics, however, claimed Sharma’s Indian heritage played a role in firing the Americans, given the percentage of H-1B workers from India. Sharma was born in Wisconsin.
Vice President JD Vance announced on Tuesday a large-scale investigation into H-1B visa fraud.
«Today, I’m proud to announce that the federal Department of Labor has started dozens of subpoenas and investigations into foreign fraudsters who are trying to take advantage of the H-1B visa program,» he said during a press conference in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
«American jobs ought to go to American workers and not foreign fraudsters and the Department of Labor is fighting back against it.»

President Donald Trump signed two executive orders on Sept. 19, 2025, establishing the «Trump Gold Card» and introducing a $100,000 fee for H-1B visas. The «Trump Gold Card» is a visa program that allows foreign nationals permanent residency and a pathway to U.S. citizenship for a $1 million investment in the United States. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)
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Recently, President Donald Trump tried to limit employers’ use of the H-1B program by imposing a $100,000 fee for companies seeking H-1B applications.
A federal judge struck down that order, reasoning that it amounted to a tax that only Congress has the ability to impose.
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Florida AG threatens Fauci investigation after Senate hearing

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Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier said he will be opening up an investigation into former National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) Dr. Anthony Fauci following Fauci’s explosive decision to invoke his Fifth Amendment right and not answer any questions during a congressional hearing Wednesday.
«Fauci’s lack of candor to Congress is unbelievable. My office is launching an investigation into Dr. Fauci. It’s past time we get the truth of what happened during COVID,» Uthmeier wrote in a Wednesday post on X.
Uthmeier further expanded on his decision in an exclusive statement to Fox News Digital.
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James Uthmeier spoke at the National Conservative Convention on Sept. 3, 2025, in Washington, D.C. (Dominic Gwinn/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images)
«In light of recent reports exposed by Senator Rand Paul, we will investigate any and all potential violations of Florida law involving Anthony Fauci,» Uthmeier told Fox News Digital.
«Our inquiry will focus on what Fauci knew, when he knew it, and how he misled the American people. We will examine the physical and monetary harms to Floridians that may have resulted from his deceptions and determine whether his conduct exposes him to liability under state law,» Uthmeier’s statement concluded.
Uthmeier cited revelations published by Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., which revealed internal notes Fauci wrote on government computers during his time at NIAID.
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Former NIH Director Anthony Fauci listens during a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing on July 29, 2026, in Washington, D.C. Fauci declined to answer questions, asserting his Fifth Amendment right. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
The internal notes, which Paul and others have taken to referring to as Fauci’s «diary,» suggest Fauci appeared to publicly overstate the death rate from COVID-19 compared to what he wrote privately.
«[Former CDC Director] Tom Frieden called me this AM and we discussed various aspects of the outbreak,» Fauci wrote on Feb. 8, 2020.
«He and I are on the same page in thinking tht [sic] this is acting like a bad influenza in its transmissibility and that the denominator is much greater than 34,867 (above) making the case fatality rate (CFR) more like 0.2-0.3 % rather than 2.0%,» Fauci’s entry concluded.
However, a month later, in congressional testimony to the House Oversight Committee on March 11, 2020, Fauci pegged the mortality rate at 1%.
«I think if you count all the cases of minimally symptomatic or asymptomatic infection, that probably brings the mortality rate down to somewhere around one percent, which means it is 10 times more lethal than the seasonal flu,» he testified.

Anthony Fauci declined to testify in a Senate committee hearing on his role in the US response to COVID-19, invoking his Fifth Amendment rights. (Left (Alex WROBLEWSKI / AFP via Getty Images), Right (Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images))
When called to testify on the revelations before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee on Wednesday, Fauci exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer legislators’ questions 111 times.
Uthmeier is not the only Republican to take aim at the former COVID czar Fauci in light of the revelations.
Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, said Wednesday that Fauci should be held in congressional contempt for refusing to answer questions despite receiving a presidential pardon.
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«I think Anthony Fauci has had contempt for Congress and contempt for the American people for decades,» he said. «His diary shows that he deliberately lied to the American people over and over and over again,» Cruz said.
Paul, for his part, said his committee will vote on whether to hold Fauci in contempt next week.
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Gobierno asegura que el desempleo en Panamá ya no es de dos dígitos

El Gobierno de Panamá aseguró que el país dejó atrás el desempleo de dos dígitos y que la recuperación del mercado laboral comienza a reflejarse en la economía de los hogares.
La ministra de Trabajo y Desarrollo Laboral, Jackeline Muñoz, afirmó que las cifras preliminares ubican la tasa de desempleo en alrededor de 9.1%, a la espera de la validación oficial del Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Censo (INEC).
Como respaldo a esa afirmación, el Ministerio de Trabajo reportó que entre enero y junio de 2026 se firmaron 174,383 contratos de trabajo, un crecimiento de 22.5% frente a los 142,391 registrados durante el mismo período del año anterior.
Sin embargo, la recuperación todavía no alcanza los niveles observados antes de la pandemia, ya que en el primer semestre de 2019 el país contabilizó 202,108 contrataciones, unas 27,700 más que las alcanzadas este año.

El incremento de las contrataciones estuvo impulsado principalmente por empleos de carácter temporal. Las estadísticas del Mitradel muestran que los contratos definidos, es decir, aquellos con una duración previamente establecida, concentraron 94.922 registros, equivalentes a más de la mitad de todas las contrataciones realizadas durante el semestre y un aumento de 23,3% respecto al año anterior.
A ellos se sumaron 38,394 contratos por obra determinada, modalidad que registró el mayor crecimiento porcentual al aumentar 33.1%, favorecida por la recuperación gradual del sector construcción.
En contraste, los contratos indefinidos, que ofrecen una mayor estabilidad laboral, ascendieron a 41,067, con un incremento de 12.4%, lo que evidencia que el mercado todavía genera una proporción importante de empleos de corta duración.
Muñoz sostuvo que los resultados responden a la reactivación económica y a la ejecución de proyectos públicos y privados que comienzan a traducirse en oportunidades de empleo.
La ministra recordó que durante 2025 se generaron alrededor de 63.000 nuevos puestos de trabajo y aseguró que la meta anunciada por el presidente José Raúl Mulino de crear 80,000 nuevos empleos es alcanzable.
Añadió que los sectores de contabilidad, logística, administración, comercio y automóviles encabezan actualmente la demanda de trabajadores, mientras que la construcción continuará siendo uno de los principales motores de contratación gracias al desarrollo de obras de infraestructura contempladas por el Gobierno.
También destacó que 936 jóvenes consiguieron una plaza laboral mediante el programa Mi Primer Empleo durante el primer semestre, mientras que 636 participantes ya cuentan con una vacante garantizada dentro de Mi Primer Empleo Agro.
Las cifras también reflejan importantes diferencias por sexo y región. Del total de contratos firmados durante el primer semestre, 117.898 correspondieron a hombres y 56.485 a mujeres, mientras que la sede central del Mitradel, que comprende principalmente la ciudad de Panamá, concentró 94,804 contrataciones.

Entre las provincias sobresalieron Panamá Oeste, con 13.345 contratos; Chiriquí, con 11.800; y Colón, con 9.130. El mejor desempeño mensual se registró en junio, cuando se firmaron 32.784 nuevos contratos, un aumento cercano al 39% frente al mismo mes del año anterior, lo que confirma la aceleración observada durante la primera mitad del año.
Pese a estos resultados, el mercado laboral panameño continúa enfrentando desafíos estructurales. La última Encuesta de Mercado Laboral del INEC, correspondiente a septiembre de 2025, situó la tasa de desempleo en 10.4%, equivalente a 227,302 personas sin trabajo, mientras que la informalidad alcanzó 47.1%, es decir, cerca de 785,000 personas laboraban sin contrato formal ni cobertura de seguridad social.
Aunque el Gobierno sostiene que el empleo formal mantiene una trayectoria de recuperación, el reto ahora será consolidar ese crecimiento mediante puestos de trabajo permanentes y recuperar el volumen de contrataciones que el país registraba antes de la pandemia, cuando el mercado laboral mostraba un mayor dinamismo y estabilidad.
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