Friend, that isn’t the issue.
We have gone through a number of H1B’s at work. They are often much lower quality than American born engineers or coders, but they work for cheap. Over all, the quality impact is detrimental to the bottom line, but for the quarterly bonus it looks great.
Ding-ding-ding! We have a winner!
Yeah, the monthlies and quarterly reports look great, right until the guy has to close the division.
I personally ascribe a lot of this development to high-concept Wall Street wand-wavers, who bring in Prof. Ubermensch to board-level breakfasts to explain the latest riff on "buy low sell high". I think that's where the whole "hire in Calcutta, sell in Beverly Hills" thing came from.
The SPP "superhighway" idea is likewise based on it. It's a wage-avoidance scheme, in that Chinese goods travel untouched by American labor from a dock in China to Mexico and then overland without labor or regulatory barriers to a Wal-Mart loading dock, there to be handled by illegal aliens on the dock and in the stockroom, overseen by an H-1B green-card manager, never touching American hands until a customer picks it up and pays First World prices for it.
Your company is telling you - quite loudly - what they really think of your profession. They may need some variant of what you do in the short term, but they resent the hell out of actually having to pay anyone to do it.