I disagree. I know way too many H-1B personnel filling finance, strategy, consulting, marketing, pricing, forecasting, and analytics roles to be persuaded otherwise. These individuals are not just coders: they are managers, directors, and vice-presidents doing jobs that many Americans are qualified to do.
To make matters worse, foreign people come as students, get a Masters or Doctorate degree and keep hanging around until they can get a company to sponsor them with the 'high-powered' pedigree that they received on borrowed money (likely student loans) that they may never repay if they get deported.
Some go through the process, get green cards, and even become citizens, but that process is long indeed. As I had to explain to my daughter, I know far too many Americans laid off so that corporate America could replace them with H-1B individuals.
I agree with H-1b in principal, but the way its being used to lay off americans for the sake of cheap labor is not the way it is to be used, thus why it need a reform or it needs to go.