It doesn't matter which state you are in -- you obviously know nothing about the hiring processes being employed in most of the IT industry these days.
H1-Bs, mostly Indians, dominate the IT recruiting industry from coast to coast. They are not doing IT work. What they are doing is preventing American citizens from getting employed in the IT jobs.
Indian IT recruiters from all over the country collect resumes belonging to American citizens, then blast those resumes at every IT job that opens up in any particular area.
If a business receives resumes from more than one source per applicant, the business MUST toss that person's application aside, or else they face litigation, because the Indian recruiter's firm will demand a cut of the American's earnings. This hideous practice eliminates every American from almost every IT opening, and most of the American applicants don't even know that their information is being submitted by the Indian recruiters. They just never get any replies from the hiring companies.
The hiring managers complain on job forums, such as Indeed.com, that some applicants apply for the same job 14 times. They can't figure out what is happening either.
That's just one of the dirty tricks employed by Indians in the US IT industry to displace American citizens. Once in a job, Indians hire only Indians. None of them, nor their skills, are superior to those of American citizen IT workers, but American citizens don't get a shot at any of those jobs.
The H1-B and other high tech visa programs should be abolished completely, and every Indian visa worker holder sent back to India.