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If you want to know what is going on with H-1B you should read Michelle Malkin’s new book “SOLD OUT: How High-Tech Billionaires & Bipartisan Beltway Crapweasels Are Screwing America’s Best & Brightest Workers”

http://www.amazon.com/dp/1501115944/ref=rdr_ext_tmb

It is a real eye opener. I knew things were bad but i never realized how bad they were until I read the book.

In 1998 Congress explicitly made it legal for employers to replace Americans with H-1B workers UNLESS:

1. The H-1B is paid less than $60,000; AND
2. The H-1B does not have a graduate degree; AND
3. The employer has more than 15% of its workers who are H-1Bs paid less than $60,000 and without graduate degrees; AND
4. The replacement takes place within 90 day of making the visa petition.

You may have read that all the H-1B visas starting Oct 1st were used up the first week in April so these restrictions, as designed, protect no one.

They are “required” as in “if they don’t they get no unemployment and no severance.”

The employer does not fire them immediately. If they refuse to perform the assigned task of training the replacement, they can be fired with cause. Therefore no unemployment and obvious no severance.