Xiao Wang is co-founder and chief executive of Boundless Immigration, a technology company that helps families and employers navigate immigration. He previously worked at Amazon and studied at Stanford University and Harvard Business School. He moved from Shanghai to Los Angeles with his grandparents at age three to join his parents. In his account of founding Boundless, he describes his family's immigration experience as a reason for building the company. His company combines online application tools with legal support for family and employment immigration.
DI has documented statements by Xiao Wang on Immigration Policy, Labor Policy, and U.S. Politics. Read the quotations, original sources and related cases below.
Role at the time: Co-founder and CEO of Boundless Immigration
Challenged the characterization
Statement summary
Wang challenges the inference that Microsoft's layoffs and foreign-worker hiring represent one-for-one replacements, pointing to different jobs and divisions.
“Layoffs and hiring are not one for ones of each other, especially at giant companies like Microsoft”
Open source (opens in a new tab)Microsoft responds to White House immigration crackdown as Trump honors Nadella · Xiao WangTech industry reaction; Xiao Wang's comments
Why we used this label
He disputes the characterization of layoffs and recruitment as interchangeable evidence of replacement hiring.
JD Vance accused Microsoft of replacing laid-off Americans with foreign workers and announced a suspension of its PERM filings. Microsoft says most of its H-1B applications concerned employees it already employed.
