You can only sell your home for market price or below. While you "own" it you get to pay large $ yearly to the governmental jurisdictions that claim a right (city, township, county, state) to tax your property or confiscate it. And then you get to pay taxes on the "gain" in price brought about by inflation, a predictable result of government policy. You still need a place to live - so you buy something similar, for a similar price, and get to pay the government some more $ to do the transaction.
Face it, we ordinary joes are feudal serfs, constantly being chewed on to a bare existence by the billionaire lords and their servants. So our lords see a cheaper source of labor overseas, then they order "our" government to let them import the labor. What, you think that there is a popular upwelling for H-1Bs?
And you can indeed offer your house for sale for any price you like, market or not. If nobody wants it, that is their business.
Legal immigration of people fully able and willing to work picks nobody's pocket and breaks nobody's nose, helps the country economically, in fact built it from 3 million backward colonists whose wealth consisted of assorted manure piles, into the richest freest and fairest society in human history. And anybody trying to pretend there is anything horrible in either that policy or this country, is hopelessly wrong about everything.
Since 1997, a married couple can earn $500,000 in capital gains tax free on a house.