Sens. Grassley, Durbin launch new H-1B fight

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13. How the H-1B Visa System Can Hurt American Workers

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/11/06/us/11visa-listy.html

Congress set up the H-1B visa program to help American companies hire foreigners with specialized skills, mainly in science and technology, for positions for which American workers with those abilities cannot be found. The goal was to help the economy expand and, ultimately, create more jobs for Americans.

But in recent years, many H-1B visas have gone to temporary immigrants who lacked special skills and displaced American workers from jobs.

Only 85,000 of these visas are granted each year, and competition for them is intense.

In some cases, H-1B visas are being used to bring in immigrants to do the jobs that American workers are doing. That’s what happened at Walt Disney World in Orlando, Fla.