Isn’t it funny that we need the law to “fill gaps” where there are no Americans to do the job but they have to fire Americans to bring in the foreigners.
Eight years ago, I was pink-slipped from my IT job. At the same time, a coworker quit a related job to go direct with our client organization, and the managers said, "Hey, let's put thulldud in that open slot!" And the word came down from corporate HQ, "That position cannot be filled by an 'onshore' resource." And out the door I went (with a golden handshake).
A year later, I was back in that same office, contracting with an offshore consulting/staff-augmentation firm.
Irony much? <snicker>