[TopQuark]

application for H1-B programmers while programmer unemployment is rising and salaries falling is unrelated in your book?

OC, I thought I already clarified that point: you are relying on aggregate data, whereas H1B addresses specific pockets of the programmers market. You can have a fall in the aggregate and a rise in one stratum.

[optimistically_conservative]

I don't disagree with that.

Now, where is the specific pocket filled by H1-Bs that is not available in the American marketplace?