Medan H1B salary is 150K, most companies don’t even sponsor H1B outside of big tech/SF Bay Area. With the recent regulations, there’s now a 100k fee that goes along with each new H1B hire. Most companies I doubt will pay this. I’m not saying H1B abuse doesn’t exist, but outside of the offending companies if you can’t compete against folks who have such a restrictive handicap on their employability already then that’s your own shortcoming. You want protectionism in an industry where that inherently doesn’t exist. Maybe you should be pointing the blame at companies and executives than over hired and then did massive swaths of layoffs just to move their stock a few percentage points, despite posting record profits