They also pay out of state tuition.
Which is good.
A couple of dirty little secrets though:
-The foreign H1B candidate often has his education fully or mostly paid for by his government back home. This gives him a leg-up on his domestic competition. There is a legendary story about a high-tech company here in town where a fistfight broke out when the American engineers learned that their H1B counterpart had gotten his Bachelors and Masters Degrees fully paid for in his home country. Meanwhile each of them was carrying $30-40K in student debt.
So this argument about H1B’s may well take us down the path of “college should be FREE”.
-Employers by and large have fallen hook, line and sinker for higher education industry propaganda that their people pop-out ready to go to work, with no training required. This has led American employers to be extremely reluctant to train employees on anything. In their view this is a cost that can be 100% shifted onto the higher education system. Ergo, lots of Americans who COULD do the job with proper training never get the chance.
Then there are the jobs which suck so bad only an H1B would take them (like teaching in combat zone schools)