I’m a well educated Silicon Valley AMERICAN engineer ... and have been unemployed since October. I have not seen an open position in my discipline or even one in a related discipline since summer last year, We need the H1B’s like a hole in the head
The H1B visa companies make sure to write their advertisements for jobs to discourage America workers from applying and put them in publications you are unlikely to read...all part of the H1B visa scam. There was a video about this one H1B visa company advising other companies how to skirt the law.