Lawyer Sues Disney For Allegedly Replacing American Workers

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) - Sara Blackwell, an immigration lawyer in Florida, has filed a lawsuit against Disney on behalf of former employees alleging they were replaced by foreign workers for the sole purpose of saving money.

Blackwell, in an interview with Dom Giordano on Talk Radio 1210 WPHT, said many companies allegedly use the H1B visa process to undermine the American work force.

"You have contracting companies, I call them the H1B companies because these companies like Cognizant, HCL, which were the contracting companies for Disney, but there's also Emphasis, Tata, which is often knows as TCS, Accenture. There's 12 to 15 of these companies that apply for thousands of the H1B visas every year. There's 85,000 H1B visas that come in every year. They apply for most of them."

Blackwell explained that this is not how the process was intended to work.

"When H1B was created it was to fill in positions when there's no American that's qualified. So the ones who do it correctly, the companies that only ask for one or two, that are not getting it, they advertise. They're required to advertise in three different avenues. They have to interview all kinds of American people and if there is no one qualified for the job, then they have to certify and swear under penalty of perjury that they tried. They won't discriminate against Americans and that no American will lose their job."