> Federal data shows the tech giant filed for over 3,000 foreign worker visas as it cuts thousands of American jobs.

Just trying to understand what context you feel is relevant here...

Even if Oracle is also firing people in India the idea that no American can do these jobs in the US should be challenged.

Let's assume they do need extremely specialised skills for these roles and are struggling to find those skills in a highly educated country like the US so need to look for employees in countries like India, the question you should then be asking is, well, if they couldn't hire from abroad what would they do instead?

Perhaps they would need to give someone who recently graduated a chance? Perhaps they would try to train people working in adjacent fields at Oracle? Maybe they would increase the salary so American's with these skills employed elsewhere would switch jobs?

So can you steal-man why I should be in favour of companies hiring abroad given there are clearly smart and educated people in the US who are looking for work or might be tempted to work for Oracle if they offered better salaries or training?

Can you explain the advantage to the US workers in allowing this?