[Mariner]

Silicon Valley just doesn't want to pay Americans according to market principles.

So, they adjust the market with H-1b to favor them.

[Nifster]

This has been true for decades. The articles in the IEEE in the1970s detailed wage gaps and hiring differences that companies did in SV to the American worker. They get away with paying as much as 70 cents on the dollar to foreign workers and laugh all the way to the bank