Maybe because the base prefers that the Chamber of Commerce faction at least makes a sincere effort to hire Americans first?
The base would prefer the COC die. I volunteer to flip the switch.
You can grant H-1B but the immigrant can arrive and not tethered to one corporation that sponsors him and forces him to work for 7 years at 1/3 salary of American worker. IAW force corporate America to compete for that H-1B worker if we truly have a shortage. Right now corporate America wants to use H-1B to sponsor “scarce tech skills” but upon arrival the immigrant does typical tech work that a US college grad can do, but at 1/3 price. It is another scam by corporate America to get cheap labor and dump unemployed American grads/workers on the US taxpayers.