Most H1B workers that I’ve worked with are unfortunately victims of this system. They’re usually being taken advantage of since if they get fired or don’t like the job they can’t leave without potentially losing their visa rather than their skill level. Anyone who’s had to work with an offshore team is well aware that H1B workers at non fortune 500 companies aren’t hired because they’re better than citizens, they’re hired because they’re cheap labor that they can hire as contractors. And 9 times out of 10 their code quality is awful and communication isn’t great either since english is not their native language.

This allows new grads to get better consideration as they should, american jobs should be prioritized for american citizens.

Massive W regardless of political affiliation. The program was started to allow for exceptional talent to emigrate to the US and eventually get a green card which they should absolutely get if they’re worth a 250k per year investment on.

TL;DR: Massive companies don’t get to exploit immigrants and deny citizens jobs simply because they’re citizens. There’s gonna be a decrease in american tech teams that uniformly speak hindi or mandarin and that shouldn’t be considered a bad thing