The US government suspended Microsoft and several other IT firms from a permanent residency programme for skilled foreign workers due to alleged fraud, while also investigating nine top universities. "If you do the math, for every worker that Microsoft laid off, they replaced that worker with one and a half foreign indentured servants," Vance said. Key points and original sources are listed below.

• The US government suspended Microsoft and several other IT firms from a permanent residency programme for skilled foreign workers due to alleged fraud, while also investigating nine top universities.S1

• "If you do the math, for every worker that Microsoft laid off, they replaced that worker with one and a half foreign indentured servants," Vance said.S2