[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.

[skeeter]

By law, or in actual practice?

I'd hope this is the way its being done.