[skeeter]

I don’t have a problem with having the H-1B program, but I would expect a proportionate number of visa holders to be among the layoffs.

If their employer's stated reasons for bringing H1Bs in in the first place are indeed valid, there can be no excuse for laying off every one of the H1B's before a single citizen is laid off.

[skeeter]

correction - there is no excuse for not laying off every H1b before laying off a single American citizen.

[org.whodat]

If their employer's stated reasons for bringing H1Bs in in the first place are indeed valid, there can be no excuse for laying off every one of the H1B's before a single citizen is laid off.

Actually you would be in deep doo doo to lay off an American and keep an H-1b visa holder. if they both were doing the same are similar jobs.