To prevent worker abuse, make visa workers punch time clocks and make employers pay by hour, $25/hour minimum.
Also make it possible for employee to switch to new employer if:
1. able to get $30/hour+
2. raise of $4/hour+
3. new employer pays older employer’s fees
Also let’s not pretend Americans can’t be found to do a job.
Require each visa holder to pay 30% minimum income tax and a $5,000 fee.
[Why not have fee? They are supposed to be premium people, so $5,000/each is small change.]
Require visa holder employers to pay a $5,000 fee too plus post $50,000 bond for each visa employee until employee surrenders his/her visa at a US embassy abroad.
“L-1 visas are available to employees of an international company with offices in both the United States and abroad. The visa allows such foreign workers to relocate to the corporation’s US office after having worked abroad for the company for at least one continuous year within the previous three prior to admission in the US. The US and non-US employers must be related in one of four ways: parent and subsidiary; branch and headquarters; sister companies owned by a mutual parent; or ‘affiliates’ owned by the same or people in approximately the same percentages.[2] The L-1 classification also enables a foreign company which does not yet have an affiliated U.S. office to send an employee to the United States to help establish one, with additional requirements.[3]
“Spouses of L-1 visa holders are allowed to work without restriction in the US (using an L-2 visa) once EAD is granted, and the L-1 visa may legally be used as a stepping stone to a green card under the doctrine of dual intent.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L-1_visa
Yep, these sorts of measures help to curb the BS and make sure that an H1B hire is brought in because there really is no replacement. This is how Europe and Asia do it— foreign workers cannot be paid anything less than native workers or have any restrictions on their freedom to look for jobs. Any employers who violate this are sent to prison. No exceptions. The Germans are especially tough on this, and even under Merkel with all her stupidity otherwise, the German middle class and tech industry has stayed intact thanks to the wisdom of her predecessors on it.