[blueriver]

Did your research indicate how many of those employees here on H-1B visas were laid off? Or did it indicate what salaries are/were paid to those employees on H-1B visas? I can assure you they are commensurate with salaries paid to "Americans" like me.

H-1B's very seldom get laid off. According to the law a company is required to still pay them for the remainder of their contract. Why would a company hire over 3,000 H-1B's is 2001 just to lay them off in 2002? This makes no business sense at all. Salaries are not the issue. American workers are AVAILABLE to fill these positions, there are thousands of unemployed American engineers and IT workers that could have filled the poisons that were given to foreigners.

[FR_addict]

Companies are also using more and more "off-shore workers". This is different than visa workers. The jobs are farmed out to foreign countries, most notably India. The contractors will come in for a few months, learn the job, then work on the job back in India.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

...IT workers that could have filled the poisons that were given to foreigners.

Freudian slip?