In 1997 a french girl and I was in luv she was a school teacher on a H1B in San Francisco, Bill Clinton went to Silicon Valley and they said Bill, we need Chinese Engineers we don’t need french school teachers.
So they took her visa away, I ended up with a wife a son a daughter a mtg and a dog (in that order) it was a good deal.
It's nice to be needed as well as wanted.
Yeah, the H1B situation is a real screwup. I think it started out OK, but over the years, it's become a way for companies to import workers who are stuck at the jobs (or else they are deported), and who effectively block the entry into the STEM workforce of American students. My son explained this to me in great detail after working a couple of years at an H1B oriented shop.