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Excellent.
H1B was NEVER meant to be a way to save money, but that is exactly how it was being used. Employers were supposed to prove that they had no qualified candidates first. But they would do things like advertise a software engineer position exclusively in the newspaper, and then proceed to dodge questions if someone did try to apply to that newspaper ad.
This has the goal of lowering wages and preventing unionization.
I agree completely about the problem, but the way to fix it would be to fix the lottery-based system and move it to more needs-based or skills-based--which also means it needs more oversight.
The problem right now is largely big tech companies flooding the lottery with tons of applications, such that smaller companies have little chance of having their applications approved. This only makes that worse.