State Control of Labor Logistics and the Structural Impasse of Big Tech: The US Administration's PERM Suspension and the Enclosure of Human Capital Supply Chains

Abstract

【Abstract】This strategic systems and institutional economics monograph investigates the systemic fault lines exposed by the United States Department of Labor's suspension of the Permanent Labor Certification (PERM) program targeting eight major technology conglomerates (including Microsoft, Adobe, and Capgemini). For decades, elite technology incumbents constructed formidable corporate moats through globalized labor arbitrage, cloaking the systematic substitution of domestic engineering talent behind the ideological rhetoric of "borderless innovation" and "hyper-specialized talent shortages." This paper demonstrates that labor migration routes constitute the critical "human physical layer" of high-technology infrastructure. By weaponizing immigration protocols and freezing permanent residency sponsorship channels, the sovereign state has dismantled the performative internationalism of Silicon Valley, asserting direct territorial control over the human capital supply chain. Through a rigorous public-choice and comparative logistics analysis, the monograph reveals how corporate rent-seeking in tech labor markets triggered a direct sovereign counter-intervention, transitioning tech governance from superficial "regulatory theater" to coercive, physical-layer state governance. The paper concludes by presenting a sustainable framework reconciling sovereign labor protection, deterministic supply chain auditing, and Human-in-Command accountability.