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I’m sorry, but you are erecting a strawman. I would locate to Orlando for a good job from Philly. The law says Disney needed to try to fill the jobs with Americans first. There is no indication that was the case, and the same thing happened with my company when they axed a division - and that was up in Boston - do you want to try and tell me that you can’t find adequate IT workers in the Boston metro area? This is all about flaunting the law to axe good-paying jobs for Americans. If you applaud that, screw you.

But you make my point. Phily isn’t Orlando. Disney and Universal together hire about 130,000 employees.

You aren’t willing to relocate. I don’t blame you. I’m not a college kid either. I’m settled in my life and wouldn’t move to Orlando or anywhere for a job.

You say there isn’t any indication they tried to look locally. But that’s speculation on your part. There is no indication they didn’t and given the nature of the publicity, somebody would have dug up evidence (as oppose to pushing agendas) that they did violate the law.

But H1Bs are only peripheral to Trumps comments. He didn’t call for ending the HB1 contracts. That’s something I would have been neutral about. Given the Orlando job market, they might or might not have done their due diligence.

If they hired H1Bs without trying to find American replacements, I hope some court frags them. I really do. It is entirely the government’s Constitutional prerogative to determine under what immigration rules people can come and work in this country. If those rules were violated, throw the damn book.

And yet, I will never believe it’s the government prerogative to force a private sector employer to hire and pay employees they don’t want.

You are addressing the HB1 angle. Trump did not. That’s the difference and it’s a huge one.