Article: Program abuses costing Americans' jobs, critics say.

Byline: Ron Harris

WASHINGTON _ Mike Emmons still remembers the day he met his "replacement," three Indian computer technicians who had been brought to the United States on special temporary visas for highly skilled workers.

Emmons and other workers for Siemens Information and Communication Networks in Orlando, Fla., were told in 2002 that they were to train the incoming workers and afterward they would be laid off and their jobs eliminated.

In addition, if the Americans refused to train the workers, they would lose their severance pay.

"I was shocked," said Emmons, 44, who now supervises management information systems for the Florida ...

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