Displaced Worker Dishes Dirt on Disney's H-1B Layoffs

Last spring, Leo Perrero, an American information technology worker at Walt Disney World, was given an ultimatum: either leave his job that day without pay, or train his foreign worker replacement for the next 90 days to get a severance package.

Perrero told the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration and the National Interest in Wednesday's hearing on the impact of high-skilled immigration on U.S. workers that his story is not the exception. In late fall 2014, Disney executives told Perrero and hundreds of his fellow IT workers employed at the company's Orlando park that they would be losing their jobs and training foreign workers who would replace them in three months.

"That day, 20 years of hard work, a bachelor's degree in Information Technology, and an IT job for Disney were all over when my team, along with hundreds of others, were displaced by a less-skilled foreign work force imported into our country using the H-1B visa program," said Perrero, a 10-year employee with Disney.

Perrero, a father, said he was forced to choose between providing for his family and stay on to train his replacement, or quitting instantaneously to symbolically stand up for Americans' being displaced by cheaper labor.

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