Reply #22: displacing US workers

[glasalle]

"By law the companies are supposed to NOT displace US workers"

This may not be quite correct, depending on what you mean by it.
According to the law, a company has to testify that it can't find
a qualified American to do the job. In reality, at least in IT, they will specify an impossible set of skills that no one would have. Then they bring in a foreigner who has the one skill they are looking for, someone who would not be hired if they were American. No one checks up on the employer and no one really checks to see if they are paying the required prevailing wage.

So maybe this is what you mean by the displacement of US workers. I believe that there is nothing in the law that says that American workers can't be displaced per se. My employer could fire me tomorrow and sponsor an H1-B to replace me the next week.