You are correct there is an unfair assumption in the article of some 1:1 conspiracy of firing 1,000's of Americans with intent to replace them through some as o

You are correct there is an unfair assumption in the article of some 1:1 conspiracy of firing 1,000's of Americans with intent to replace them through some as of yet Immigration reform. However, to answer your question, yes there is evidence to suggest companies want to hire immigrants to fill the same jobs that Americans were laid off from. This is a link to a case of first impression (lawsuit) for this kind of discriminant practice, firing Americans for foreign workers, showing American's were kept on board to train their foreign replacements, then fired without cause. http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/01/16/1055249/-Discrimination-Lawsuit-May-Crush-H1-b-Practice-of-Training-Our-Foreign-Replacements# http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/01/16/1055249/-Discrimina... Ironically, the discovery in the lawsuit tends to show that the foreign workers were more expensive, because more had to be hired to replicate the productivity of the "skilled American workers". More evidence, but a stretch, is the Immigration reform proposed by "the gang of 8" which allowed for the corporate demanded H1-B's but created strict regulations (protections for the American workers before allowing the foreign candidate to be hired; for example the H1-B employee would have to be paid more than their American counter-part), which was opposed by these very same corporations. http://blog.heritage.org/2013/05/20/immigration-gang-of-eight-would-make-h-1b-program-unworkable/ http://blog.heritage.org/2013/05/20/immigration-gang-of-eigh...