Most of these foreign outsourcing companies are from India: Infosys. Tata. and Wipro. You may not recognize those names. but they are making billions of dollars using the HlB visa to outsource American jobs and displace American workers. A highranking Indian Government official even called the HlB visa "the outsourcing visa." The International Herald Tribune investigated these Indian companies. and this is what they concluded: "Rather than building a thriving community of experts and innovators in the United States. the Indian firms seek to funnel workand expertiseaway from the country." Congress intended the HlB program to allow an employer to hire a skilled foreign worker in a specialized occupation when the American employer couldnt find an American worker with those skills and abilities. We didnt create this program for foreign outsourcing firms to exploit the program and to bring foreign workers to our country to be trained by talented American workers in order to see their jobs shipped away. So lets take an example. In the last year alone. media reports have documented the replacement of hundreds of American workers by these foreign outsourcing companies. Let me give an example close to home. Abbott Labs of Illinois. headquartered near Chicago. signed a contract for information technology services with Wipro. one of the largest foreign outsourcing companies based in India and one of the top users of the HlB visa program. Here is how it worked: Approximately 150 U.S. employees at Abbott Labs in Illinois are going to lose their jobs. The workers being laid off have stellar experiencemany of them have been at Abbott for years.