The program allows companies to bring in educated foreign professionals for “specialty” occupations that are hard to fill with U.S. workers, but critics say it costs Americans jobs.
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Ten years after being laid off from Disney, Leo Perrero still views a visa program for skilled international workers as deeply flawed, blaming it for disrupting his information technology career and putting him in the unsettling position of having to train his foreign replacement.
“The whole thing is just a terrible scam on Americans,” said Perrero, who eventually was able to rebound and find another job in IT.
