America's Green Card freeze: Political messaging at the cost of global talent

Col Guru Saday Batabyal(Retd) New Delhi, Oct 14 (UNI) The Trump administration's decision to suspend access to the Permanent Labour Certification programme (PERM) for a select group of technology companies-Indian giants such as TCS, Infosys, Wipro and HCL Tech, alongside Microsoft, Adobe, Cognizant and Capgemini-must be read not merely as an administrative tightening but as a political gesture calibrated for domestic resonance. The order halts both new PERM applications and the processing of pending ones, effectively freezing the green-card pipeline for thousands of highly skilled foreign workers. It is framed as a defence of American jobs, but its timing and…