Tata Consultancy Services, which is one of the largest sponsors of H-1B visas, has said it will no longer be hiring applicants through the program. CEO K. Krithivasan told the Deccan Chronicle and The Times of India that the company had a sufficient number of H-1B employees already in the U.S., and would now focus on hiring local talent.

What began in 1952 as a stopgap for seasonal labor has become a test case for U.S. immigration policy under President Trump.  The H-2B visa program has become a backbone of seafood processing and meatpacking,

President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Club was approved for up to 170 temporary foreign worker H-2B visas this fiscal year, the most in the past decade, records show. H-2B visas form part of the backbone of the workforce that drives the hospitality ...

In a new complaint filed Thursday, the conservative-leaning U.S. Chamber of Commerce accused the Departments of Homeland Security and State of causing damage to small- and medium-sized businesses by instigating the new fee, which the chamber also said was breaking the law.