WASHINGTON: A senior US lawmaker on Friday urged the Trump Administration to intensify federal scrutiny of corporate use of H-1B visas, warning that major American technology firms are laying off domestic workers even as they continue recruiting thousands of foreign professionals — a trend with direct implications for Indian engineers who make up the single largest group of H-1B beneficiaries.

In a letter to Labour Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer, US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) Director Joseph Edlow, and Attorney General Pam Bondi, Senator Ruben Gallego said high-skilled immigration must advance economic growth without becoming a channel to “undercut or replace US employees.” He argued that the pattern of mass layoffs followed by continued H-1B hiring has raised “important

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