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[At a White House Fraud Task Force news conference:] So if the H-1B visa is how the people get into the country, the PERM program is how they stay in the United States to begin with. … Now there has been no company in the United States, unfortunately, that has abused the system more than Microsoft. … Microsoft laid off last year 6,000 American workers. At the same time, the company benefited from 6,300 H-1B visas and almost 3,000 green cards. In other words, if you do the math, for every worker that Microsoft laid off, they replaced that worker with one and a half foreign indentured servants. … Now that is a scandalous system that we've allowed in this country for far too long. … You cannot lay off American workers and then replace them with foreign indentured servants. … Microsoft is a great American company … but we're also going to deny them the ability to apply for these permanent residencies until they show that they are going to get serious about putting American workers first.