Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley and ranking member Dick Durbin sent letters on Wednesday evening to the country’s largest users of H-1B visas – including Amazon.com (AMZN), Apple (AAPL) and JPMorgan Chase (JPM) – asking the companies to explain why they continue to hire thousands of foreign employees on H-1B visas while also cutting other jobs, reported The Wall Street Journal’s Anvee Bhutani. Less than a week after President Trump announced an overhaul of the H-1B program, the senators asked for detailed information on how many H-1B workers the companies employ, their wages, and whether American workers have been displaced in the process, the Journal noted.
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