The article included a long list of hightech computer companies laying off thousands of workers. For example. on April 13. Intel Corporation announced plans to cut 3.000 jobs. Earlier in the month. Compaq Computer announced that it plans to lay off 15.000 workers as part of its merger with Digital. and the list goes on. Not all of these lost jobs are the same jobs that would be filled with foreign workers under the HlB visa program. But we must be certain that no employer turns around and brings in a HlB worker to fill a job from which American workers were laid off. Stephen Schultz of Modesto.