Blackmoor Vituperative

Worried that a visa program for high-skilled foreign workers is being abused to displace higher paid Americans, two U.S. senators on Monday asked nine foreign-based companies to explain how they are using the work permits.

Senate Assistant Majority Leader Richard Durbin, an Illinois Democrat, and Sen. Charles Grassley, an Iowa Republican, said in letters to the companies that they had received reports of fraud and abuse of the H-1B visa program that allows companies to bring highly skilled workers into the United States.

“More and more it appears that companies are using H-1B visas to displace qualified, American workers,” Grassley said in a statement.

The senators said some visas were being used to train foreign workers in the United States to perform jobs that were later transferred to India and other countries.

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At least 65,000 H-1B visas are allotted each year. The nine foreign companies, most of them based in India, accounted for 20,000 of the visas available last year, the senators said.

“The reality is that too many H-1B visas are being used to facilitate the outsourcing of American jobs to other countries,” Durbin said.

(from eWeek, Lawmakers Ask Foreign Firms for Work Visa Data)

Damned straight.