US President Donald Trump planned to celebrate tech billionaires such as Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella on Thursday, only to get upstaged hours before the event when Vice President JD Vance announced that the firm was being suspended from a programme that allows companies to apply for green cards for skilled foreign workers with H-1B visas.
The crackdown on Microsoft came under Vance's purview as the head of a fraud task force, but the targeting revealed the tension between the companies powering US economic growth and the administration's efforts to reduce immigration that it says has come at the expense of American workers.
