In response to a video of a seminar on how businesses can deliberately avoid hiring US workers and bring in foreign workers to work in the US instead, Sen. Grassley (R-IA) and Rep. Lamar Smith (R-TX) have sent a letter to Elaine Chao, Secretary of Labor. See this SF Chronicle story. Telling paragraphs:

Siding with the displaced Americans, Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, and Rep. Lamar Smith, R-Texas, wrote Chao Thursday after seeing a five-minute video in which the marketing director of a Pittsburgh law firm is shown telling employers how they can advertise a job so as to appear that the only qualified applicant is a foreign national.

"Our goal is clearly not to find a qualified and interested U.S. worker," says Lawrence Lebowitz of the Cohen & Grigsby law firm during a seminar taped in May. "In a sense it sounds funny, but that's what we're trying to do here."

Text of the Grassley-Smith letters is here (one is to the firm offering this seminar, and the other is to Chao). Telling:

The firm videotaped the Seventh Annual Immigration Law Update Seminar, exposing the blatant disregard for American workers and deliberate attempt to bring in cheaper foreign workers through the H-1B program.

As outlined in our letter, we are concerned that companies are abusing the H-1B program. The video explicitly shows how attorneys are aiding companies in this effort. We seek your assistance in this particular case by reviewing the video and investigating the law firm’s unethical procedures and advice to clients.