On Thursday, Senator Jeff Sessions’ Immigration Subcommittee held a hearing titled, The Impact of High-Skilled Immigration on U.S. Workers . The hearing was not that different from a similar one last March , and it indicates the desire of the chairman to enact some meaningful reforms. However, killing the H-1b scam outright seems the appropriate action when only one-third of native-born Americans with an undergraduate STEM degree holding a job actually work in a STEM occupation.

The persons testifying included Leo Perrero, who spoke out last fall about his layoff from Disney after the company replaced its American tech staff with cheaper H-1b foreigners. He decided to leave his career in tech after 20 years experience because he apparently could see no future in it despite earlier success and receiving the “very highest employment performance review” at Disney. His emotional description of the disappointment he felt from being cut was a memorable part of the hearing:

PERRERO: Later that same day [after being laid off] I clearly remember going to the local church pumpkin sale and having to tell the kids I couldn’t buy any that year because my job was being turned over to a foreign worker. I started to think: what kind of American was I becoming? Was I going to become part of ruining our country by taking severance pay in exchange for training my foreign replacement? How many other American families would be affected by the same foreign worker that I trained? . . . We all felt extremely humiliated when the foreign worker sat next to us and watched everything we did. The final period of 90 days was the most disgraceful and demoralizing, as we had to watch the foreign workers completely take over our jobs. And we came to grips that the upcoming Disney jobs promise didn’t exist. Then finally on January 31st of 2015, we were ordered to turn in our company badges, laptops and then ushered out the door.

For the record, Americans being forced to train foreign replacements is hardly new. In 1995 Labor Secretary Robert Reich warned Congress about the H-1B program because there were already reports of abuse then.

Attorney John Miano also testified and was full of information, having recently written Sold Out: How High-Tech Billionaires & Bipartisan Beltway Crapweasels Are Screwing America’s Best & Brightest Workers with co-author Michelle Malkin.

Here’s a clip of Senator Sessions questioning the panel about alleged “opportunities” offered to citizens following their being laid off. He observed that the tech jobs promised following the outsourcing of heavy industry have not materialized, noting that Facebook employs only 7,000.

The text of the Chairman’s opening statement follows: