It has replaced many highly skilled highly educated Americans with cheap foreigners .. including this one ... more than once I have trained my foreign replacement. This POS program needs to be eliminated ASAP
The ONLY reason companies use H-1B is to keep the price of talent low.
The author cites 1/4 to 1/3 the rates paid to US workers.
And he is correct.
Next it will be any and every skilled job is the USA (Well, when Ted Cruz and cohorts get their way).
After all, we have a shortage of welders willing to work for minimum wage, and those plumbers make it IMPOSSIBLE to make a decent profit on a construction job.
Don't get me going on the prima donna electricians.
Doctors. Nurses and every kind of Medical professional.
When it was just IT workers making $100k+ many jealous Americans were all for H-1B. We'll see how they feel about it when it THEIR job.