We have over 300 million in this country and these comapnies cannot say they cannot find help. I would bet 99% of them just make it up as they go along in as we need immigrants workers. Americans also attend these same colleges and have the same set of skills. I agree, about $$$ at the same time the corporate officers seek higher numbers of immigrants, both low-skill and high-skill,..the same corporate officers want workers with whom they can pay reduce wages too and fewer benefits.Bill Gates is a prime example of being cheap and wants higher numbers of immigrants,so he can pay them less. But none of his prices reflect reduced costs..
I ran across a help-wanted ad a couple of years ago for what appeared to be an engineer to test the software that runs GPS receivers; not a trivial task.
The offered wage was $33 per hour.
In Los Angeles.
That’s not even “New Grad” pay; a legitimate offer for that task in that area would have been double the offered rate.
They were clearly developing documentation for a claim that it was a job that Americans just wouldn’t do, and they needed H1b visas for Ajit, Sanjay, Hitesh and Apu.
Who would all four bunk together in a studio apartment to split the rent four ways and hire an illegal Mexican housekeeper to clean and cook for them.