H1Bs are indentured servants - paid sub-par wages and unable to negotiate for better or leave the employer they’re enslaved to.
If we want more skilled labor, raise the cap on regular visas.
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That is a load of BS, unless you consider the $150,000 salaries some of the younger chemical scientists are making at various pharma cos to be slave wages—if so, I want your job. You think Eli Lilly wants to pay six figures to someone who isn’t a citizen and might leave Indianapolis to go home? Much chaeper turnover to get an American kid—the problem is, there aren’t enough.
Botrh you statement and his statement are correct.
Not all H1Bs are in the same situation.
But certainly the goal of H1Bs is greater supply and lower costs for high-skilled programmers, engineers etc.
Business wouldnt want it if it didnt lower their costs.