It was just yesterday that seven potential GOP presidential candidates gathered at Walt Disney World in Orlando, Fla., to argue their economic policies as part of Gov. Rick Scott’s economic growth summit. Just a day later, the New York Times was reporting on other economic news from the Magic Kingdom: the layoffs of around 250 tech workers back in October, many of whom were kept around for the purpose of training their replacements, immigrants brought in on H-1B visas by an outsourcing firm based in India.

“These visas are at the center of a fierce debate in Congress over whether they complement American workers or displace them,” reports the Times, and “are intended for foreigners with advanced science or computer skills to fill discrete positions when American workers with those skills cannot be found.”

In Disney’s case, those workers could be found easily, sitting at their desks and doing their jobs. And Disney is certainly not the only American company exploiting the H-1B loophole to hire less-expensive workers. For its part, Disney said the layoffs were part of a corporate reorganization “meant to allow technology operations to focus on producing more innovations.”

!!! Disney lays off 250 tech workers, replaces them w/ immigrants on temp visas. Tells laid-off to train replacements http://t.co/lGAPeV0gul — Steven Greenhouse (@greenhousenyt) June 3, 2015

.@michellemalkin @greenhousenyt This has been happening everywhere in the country for years. — King Of Mars (@kingofmars2099) June 3, 2015

@michellemalkin @greenhousenyt silicon Valley has been doing this for years — Robert Clagett (@robertclagett) June 3, 2015

@michellemalkin @greenhousenyt People that might lose their corporate jobs to the disgusting H-1B Visa say, "The H-1B VIRUS is goin around!" — Tattooed Drew (@RealTattooDrew) June 3, 2015

.@michellemalkin @greenhousenyt Disney learned about outsourcing IT from @IBM. Disney outsourced to IBM in the past getting plenty of H-1B — LinuxExplorer (@LinuxExplorer) June 3, 2015

@michellemalkin @greenhousenyt Hey Steven, This is old news.Unless of course you only follow the Liberal (Main Stream Media) you should know — Seewetoldu (@rhhhhh380) June 3, 2015

.@greenhousenyt Are you seriously only hearing about Disney & H-1B's Dig Your Own Grave for the 1st time? — Michelle Malkin (@michellemalkin) June 3, 2015

This isn't new to me. In my book published in 2008, I wrote of WA software company replacing US workers with H-1B's. https://t.co/FJAg00I9vD — Steven Greenhouse (@greenhousenyt) June 4, 2015

@michellemalkin @greenhousenyt Great question for the longtime labor reporter, MM. Are we even sure he knows what Disney is? Dig deep. — Daniel Kearney (@DMKSeattle) June 4, 2015

Attention, clueless NYT journos: Screwing American workers isn't a bug of H-1B. It's been a feature for 25 years. https://t.co/aI07c75fBx — Michelle Malkin (@michellemalkin) June 4, 2015

Flashback: The big, fat “American recruitment first” lie of H-1B ==> http://t.co/s7St4h2KnJ — Michelle Malkin (@michellemalkin) June 4, 2015

Yup. So do Jeb Bush, Rick Perry & Carly Fiorina. https://t.co/8Jle2aMmDR — Michelle Malkin (@michellemalkin) June 4, 2015

.@michellemalkin: Why do you insult people so cavalierly? I was just tweeting out a good story by an NYT colleague. http://t.co/lGAPeV0gul — Steven Greenhouse (@greenhousenyt) June 4, 2015

.@greenhousenyt You're the 2nd NYT journo I've seen to tout the story as if it's a new phenomenon. I find that flabbergasting. — Michelle Malkin (@michellemalkin) June 4, 2015

@michellemalkin When an NYT friend writes a good story about work & labor subjects, I tweet it out. I hadn't seen the Daily Caller story — Steven Greenhouse (@greenhousenyt) June 4, 2015

@michellemalkin Thanks. Will take a look. Am getting attacked by your followers, so I'm going to Tweet that I wrote about this in my book. — Steven Greenhouse (@greenhousenyt) June 4, 2015