Top U.S. senators are pressing Big Tech companies to explain their reliance on H-1B visa workers even as they lay off thousands of employees.

According to The Wall Street Journal, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Ranking Member Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) have sent letters to the nation’s largest H-1B users — including Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, and JPMorgan Chase — demanding details on their hiring practices.

The senators asked how many H-1B workers are employed, what wages they receive, and whether American workers have been displaced as a result.

“With all of the homegrown American talent relegated to the sidelines, we find it hard to believe that Amazon cannot find qualified American tech workers to fill these positions,” Grassley and Durbin wrote to Amazon CE

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