This visa program is simply another gov’t subsidy to crony corporatists.
Lay off an American worker, and replace him with someone here on a visa based on the phony claim that the employer just can’t find anyone in America qualified to do the job.
Nuke the site from orbit—it’s the only way to be sure.
The explanation I have heard from an Austrian economist (I forget who it was):
When oil prices rise, the gas station owner raises prices (as high and as fast as his local market will support), because the next load of fuel he buys will be priced based on the higher price of crude (plus refining and delivery costs).
When oil prices drop, no station owner wants to be first to cut his price, making the higher price a little sticky. Eventually, though, someone in the local market drops their price, and the others follow suit to avoid loss of sales.
This reminds me (painfully) of when I was RIF’d and replaced by a cheaper guy from India here on an H1B. The premise of his visa being that there was nobody in the US with the skills needed to do the job I had been doing for years....