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president trump says he wants to stop foreign workers from taking americans' jobs. he has taken particular aim at h 1 b visa program. bill whitaker takes a look at the program and how it is some times abused for "60 minutes." last october, robert harrison senior telecon university at university of california san francisco medical center was called to a meeting at the university with about 80 of his it co-workers. >> what did they say to you? >> we are ser to inform you as of february 28th you will no longer have a job. we are going to outsource your position to the company in india. >> to a company in india? >> yes, sir. >> reporter: harrison was told
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he could stay on the job, get paid for four months and get a bonus if he trained his replacement. >> now i'm being told that i am not only going to lose my job, but i have to train the people to take my job. >> reporter: were you angry? >> pissed. that exceeds angry. i am really not a violent guy. i love people. but i envisioned my self, backhanding the guy as he is sitting next to me trying to learn what i know. i said, god, please don't let them send anybody to sit next to me to shadow me. i don't want to do this. really don't. >> reporter: harrison and colleagues staged a protest outside the medical center. his fellow worker, senior systems administrator, curt hough is losing his job too. he had just trained his replacement from india. >> i think for once we are going to stand up as americans and say enough is enough. we are not going to take it anymore. >> thank you for standing up for what you believe in. >> reporter: their rally was organized by this woman.
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florida attorney sarah blackwell. >> this its about the companies making the decision that you were worthless to them. >> reporter: she represents hundreds of u.s. workers who were fired and replaced by foreign workers with h 1 b visas. >> when you tell someone the real reason for getting rid of the jobs is for cheap, foreign labor, that should offend everyone. >> reporter: they have to train the worker who is going to take their job? >> right. and they are told by their company, if you don't train this person in a way that we approve of them being trained then you don't get yourself rans. >> reporter: the ucsf medical center highly regarded state run institution. administrators say, outsourcing the it jobs could save $30 million taxpayer dollars over the next five years. that's a fraction of the university's $5.8 billion annual budget. but to robert harrison, it's his job. >> i can't wrap my mind around training somebody to take my position. you know this is my livelihood. how am i suppose to feel? >> reporter: i heard some workers say that -- this is like digging your own grave? is that what it feels like? >> it feels worse than that. it feels like not only am i
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digging the grave, getting ready to stab myself in the gut and fall into the grave. >> reporter: when the h-1-b visa was created in 1990 it was intended to help the u.s. attract and hold on to best and brightest engineers and scientists and provide pathway to citizenship. at the time, members of congress promised u.s. workers would be protected. >> this legislation protects american jobs. >> reporter: former congressman, bruce morrison, then chairman of the immigration committee, authored the bill. >> reporter: you came up with the legislation what do you think of what it has become? >> i'm any outraged, the h 1 b hijacked as the main highway to
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bring people from abroad and displace americans. >> reporter: businesses insist the visas are absolutely necessary to compete for the best global talent. and that even more h 1 b workers are needed to fill job shortages. nearly every major high tech company including apple, google, facebook, has employees here on h 1 b visas. media companies too. including cbs. >> the argument from high tech firms its they can't find enough qualified american workers. well there a a lot of qualified american workers, but the companies will do better financially if they hire the foreign worker rather than the american. >> the american workers are just as skilled as you are?
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>> perhaps even more skilled. >> uh-huh. >> yes. that's true. >> rajesh works at major wall street bank on a visa. to protect his job and personal safety he asks that we change his appearance and name. he was placed at the bank by one of the growing number of outsourcing companies. most of the global staffing firms are based in india. they've become multibillion dollar enterprises supplying american companies with h 1 b workers like rajesh to replace american workers. rajesh said he was never told in india he would be taking americans' jobs. >> i have to take all their knowledge. basically i have to steal it. that's my job description. >> and the american worker is let go. >> translator: yeah, the
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american workers lose their job. and they also cry while leaving the job. >> reporter: they cry? >> they have been working there 20 years. suddenly i have taken their job. if i lose a job, i can go back to india. but where can they goal? >> reporter: you must know that when -- most native born americans see this going on, they blame you. >> translator: yes, but i am not the enemy. the main villains are the indian companies and their american corporate clients. they are exploiting us. >> reporter: why can't we just say we will give jobs to americans first? >> well that its what the statute says. but they put in a loophole. and the loophole says, if you pay over $60,000, you can do that. and besides that, you don't have to try to find americans. well, $60,000 is not high pay for this kind of work. people doing this work today, easily make $120,000 to $140,000. >> reporter: who put in the loophole? >> well done by congress. but, obviously the industry lobbied for it. it's really a travesty that should never have been allowed -- to happen. >> it wasn't called training your replacement, it was knowledge transfer. >> he worked foreversource, and was one of 220 it workers replaced by h 1 b visa employees.
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deangelo says his replacement, worker from india, told him he was making half deangelo's salary with no benefits. >> i didn't get laid off for lack of work. i've got laid off because somebody cheaper could do nigh job. to anyone who would say you're anti-imgrant. >> no. >> that is a lie. >> a lie. >> you don't want to have any animosity towards them. they're looking for a better way of life. >> you can see the full report on our web site. cbs news.com. the "overnight news" will be right back. "let life in with new herbal essences bursting with argan oil of morocco and notes of jasmine to put more life in your head. and now with the power of bio:renew to put more life in your hair.
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a famous japanese artist who lives inside a mental institution has a traveling art exhibit working its way across the united states. errol barnett caught up with the show in washington. >> reporter: good morning, welcome to the obliteration room. this is one of the of kusamas's, and the response to this exhibit has been overwhelming. one month ago when the first 9,000 daily time passes were made available, free, snatched up within six minutes. the museum's website crashed. people have been lining up ever. you could say there was almost no end to the number of people
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wanting to experience kusama's infinite world. one step into the space and the experience is quite literally limitless. >> from her quirky work, all the eternal love i have for the pumpkins. to her earliest mirror display. and on. >> oh, my gosh. >> and on. never before have so many of the kusama captivating infinity mirror rooms been in the same place at the same time. rarely seen outside of japan, kusam established herself in the american art world after her move to new york in 1957. >> in the late 50s, the postwar period in japan, i think it was also very much a period if you wanted to become an artist you had to go to a place like new york. >> reporter: the hirschel museum's director.
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>> i would say it started with her arrival in new york. she became enamored with performance art. >> reporter: as an anti-war activist, she staged happenings against violence at the height of the vietnam war. >> she wanted recognition. she wanted to be known as an artist. >> she has studied her work for years. >> young people who were in her studio also frequented warhol's studio. she was very competitive. she saw male artists like andy warhol's arrive vals. but the pace of her life in new york was unsustainable. >> came back to japan in 1973. and went through -- quite a dark period. >> reporter: she literally worked herself mad. >> yes. 40, 50 hours at a stretch. >> reporter: kusama has lived in
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a tokyo mental institution for 40 years. checking herself out to work at a nearby studio every morning and returning to the psychiatric hospital each evening. in a video made for the exhibit, the media shy artist shared her philosophy. the effective infinite constant repetition leads us to fining our ever-expanding hope she says. >> she developed a method or rhythm to stabilize her condition. art really is a way for her, a healing process. >> is she happy? >> that's a hard question, i think. there is a lot of dualities in her work. some of her work is dark. >> reporter: you wouldn't go as far to say happy. she is many ways conflicted. >> she barely smiles when i see her. i think the only time she smiles when she finishes one, one of her paintings. >> reporter: she has described her art as therapy. and her appeal has been profound. >> this is the most visited exhibition in the museum's history. >> reporter: this obliteration
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room, started out with no color at all. museum goers who are given sheets of stickers, are encouraged to cover the room in polka dots of every size and color. to the thousand who have visited this exhibit. >> what would you compare it to? >> the planet i'm from. >> a trip. >> it is a -- a reality unto itself. >> reporter: an immersive experience. >> a little psychedelic tour, right. >> reporter: created by a tormented artist with a decidedly positive impact. >> it made me very happy. >> reporter: and something like this is prime for social media. #infinite kosoma has appeared on 23 million instagram, twitter accounts. 212 impressions. from here the show continues from washington it head to los angeles, seattle, toronto, cleveland, and, atlanta. the cbs "overnight news"
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>> a 3-year-old girl turned into an internet sensation. visiting the vatican, she stole a kiss from the pope, stole his hat. later stole the heart of our own seth doane. >> reporter: the pope often speaks of trying to bring the catholic church closer to the people. in this case it got really close. it seemed to be happening in slow motion. scott westrick told us. there was the pope. his daughter. then the pontiff's skullcap in her hands. >> taking the pope's hat. it is fantastic. >> reporter: westrick, his daughter and family friend had been waiting four hours to try
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to see the pope after his weekly audience. >> he went in to give her a kiss on the cheek. looked like she kissed him back. then made her move. >> mother alexis back at the hotel. >> first thing. mommy, i saw the pope. i got his hat. >> reporter: trying to get estella to tell us about it, took some work. tell me about your trip. this 3-year-old does things her way. was it funny? >> yeah. >> reporter: what was funny about it? >> i don't know. can i take my phone back? >> no. >> reporter: she has a knack for grabbing things. okay. okay. you are taking photo. >> say cheese! >> i think the pope goes with the flow on these things. >> reporter: the director of the holy sea press office says pope francis pushes to get closer to the public. as he has a number of times during his wednesday audience. inviting folks to join him for a ride. blessing the disabled. or hamming it up. >> you know, i know security
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wants, wants more security, they want tighter things, sorry i have got to be there with the people. estella's godfather took the video and posted it on twitter. >> the photographers were laughing. a security was laughing. >> good said estella, finally coaxed with a little ge latto. >> good. >> what was good about the pope? >> i took his hat. >> you got his hat. you did. and everybody laughed? did you think you were going to get his hat, was that the plan? or did you just do it? >> i just do it. >> as you can see, we resorted to giving her a little ice cream to get her to talk. alex, her dad says, she does things as she likes. >> that's the "overnight news" for this friday. for some of you, the news continues. for others check back with us later for the morning news and of course, cbs this morning.
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it's 2017. this is the "cbs morning news." presidential ultimatum. after a day of delays, lawmakers will finally cast a vote on health care. london officials identify the man who plowed into pedestrians in the heart of the city, while several thousand gather to remember the four people killed. why internet providers could soon get the green light to cash in on your private information. and march madness lives up to its name. >> for the elite eight, no! oregon
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