It's already much cheaper to pay a programmer overseas than to hire someone on an H-1B. If the jobs companies are using H-1Bs for were easy to offshore, they wo

It's already much cheaper to pay a programmer overseas than to hire someone on an H-1B. If the jobs companies are using H-1Bs for were easy to offshore, they would already be doing it. Obviously reducing the number of H-1Bs will change the math, so that a few jobs may move overseas, but there are many advantages to having employees in the US.