I have seen first hand the games played by organizations who use a revolving door of Indian engineers (hardware and software) to keep the wage scale depressed for American engineers.
The bean counters never want to pay for the highly diverse skill set and training (WAY more than any MBA)required to be a good engineer capable of developing systems for anything from skate boards to rockets so to keep the wage scale in line they use these H1Bs.
Never let your children become an engineer. To be really good you must not only have a great foundation in lets say electronics and software but you MUST continually keep abreast of the ever changing technology which comes much faster than the latest MBA scam for improving the bottom line by avoiding taxes, suppressing wages, tracking the age of the staff (see note 1 at end), stealing rebates from your customers (see note 2 at end) etc.
And, unless you work for an Engineering Firm, you will always be a spare tire. By that I mean, the mahogany row crowd will only call on you when they need something otherwise stay hidden in the trunk less you be seen by one of the MBA types at the golf outing.
One thing I found as Corporate Director Of Engineering for a $50B/year company was you tend to believe these H1B people understand English as they sort of speak it, but believe me there is a huge disconnect.
NOTE: I caught the HR department tracking the age of every member of the office staff so as to make sure they never reached retirement. In 16 years, in an office of 200+ only one person retired the rest were pushed out.
NOTE: One division (of 50+) was caught twice stealing major portions of customer rebates for consumables which were agreed upon in the contract. They were the division’s largest customer. They left. The mahogany row crowd had already been promoted because of the huge contribution to the bottom line, (with stolen money). The spare tire remained in the trunk.