It is part of the new world order plot to destroy the middle class. The engineering skills typically paid well enough to put the young engineer solidly in the middle class; that is unacceptable to those who want it reduced to the elite and the rest.
A friend of my son’s is an Engineering student at GaTech. He only has one semester to go and he can’t find a summer internship...not even an unpaid one. Part, of course, is due to the economy, but it makes one wonder what the role of H1B’s is in the lack of jobs.