Tech Fights Claim That Foreign-Worker Spouses Help Take Jobs
- Firms urge court to reject lawsuit to eliminate spouse visas
- Workers who lost jobs to foreigners sued to end Obama-era rule
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Big Tech is wading into a legal fight over visas to save the jobs of spouses of its foreign employees working in the U.S.
Amazon.com Inc., Apple Inc., Google, Microsoft Corp. and more than 20 other companies and organizations, including the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, on Friday urged a federal court in Washington to reject a lawsuit seeking to eliminate work authorization for more than 90,000 H-4 visa holders.