Microsoft president Brad Smith says it's ironic that White House targeted his company the same day it gave a medal to former H-1B Satya Nadella

Microsoft president Brad Smith reacts to the Trump administration's suspension of his company's Green Card applications. Microsoft vice chair and president Brad Smith reacted to the Donald Trump administration suspending the Green Card filings from his company along with seven other tech majors in an exclusive interview with Politico in Dublin and warned that this could cripple the US tech sector for over a generation. He said it was ironic that the White House chose to target his company’s foreign workers on the same day it gave a medal to Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, who was once an H-1B visa holder from India.“We should consider the fact that when the president honored six Americans with these technology and science medals, five of the six had come to the United States as immigrants,” Smith said. “And those five individuals, if you put them and their companies together, have companies that have a market value equal to more than 25% of the market value of the total S&P 500.”“Think about what those five individuals have done for the well-being, even the wealth and standard of living, of Americans across the country. Let’s not put that at risk.”Smith said JD Vance's allegations...