All this H1B stuff is about just one thing - pushing down American salaries. It was never about “attracting the best talent”.

I’ve worked with H1B recipients. 95%+ were clearly less skilled than their American counterparts. But they were cheap, would work long hours, and never talked back.

https://electrek.co/2024/12/30/tesla-replaced-laid-off-us-workers-with-foreign-workers-using-h-1b-visas-that-musk-want-to-increase/