“as long as we focus on the following goals: to improve jobs and wages for Americans”
H1B visas are not for immigrants. I hired many actual immigrants when I was an IT manager. I refused to consider any visa workers. The immigrants did not come at any sort of discounted wages the way H1B captive indentured servants do.
Visa workers should be limited to a few thousand for absolutely top people in research universities, not the 80,000+ per year H1Bs who are really substandard workers whose only value is their indentured status.
Why didn’t you hire Americans?