Skilled Foreign Worker Taking Your Job? It’s Legal

U.S. information technology workers are being laid off and required to train their replacements: temporary visa holders employed by outsourcing companies. But this practice is actually perfectly legal.

President Donald Trump and members of Congress have repeatedly expressed concern that the program is being used to replace U.S. workers with foreign labor.

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) cited “egregious abuses of the H-1B program,” in a May 26 statement. Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) said using H-1B visas to displace Americans is “against the spirit and intent and letter of the law,” speaking at a May 24 Judiciary Committee ...