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Facing deportation, sacked workers on US visas say Meta abandoned them

The affected workers have now created a WhatsApp group to share their concerns. A majority of the about 300 people in the group are from India, the report said

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BS Web Team New Delhi
Days after Meta laid off 11,000 of its global workforce, hundreds of them working for the Facebook parent company in the US say they feel helpless and abandoned by their employer, according to a report in BuzzFeed News. Tech giants like Meta rely heavily on work visas to hire employees who are largely from India and China.

Many of these sacked employees are immigrants, and they are more worried about being forced to leave the US if they fail to find another job in time. Others who were

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