Anecdotally, as a former H1-B worker, I would not say I was underpaid or the employer ever exploited the fact that I was on H1-B. From my standpoint it has alwa

Anecdotally, as a former H1-B worker, I would not say I was underpaid or the employer ever exploited the fact that I was on H1-B. From my standpoint it has always been a fair deal. Okay, the gist of the article is that H1-B should require higher salaries (in the 75th percentile). This would have the effect of cutting off younger and less experienced workers. The problem here is that more experienced and older people are less likely to want to move. In other words, this would mean that the US tech would lose out on the potential talent. Again anecdotally my current tech org is 60-80% foreign born. It is also one of the most selective places around. Would it be like it is without H1-B program? I doubt it. So perhaps the system needs tweaking, specifically in the area of making the system work faster and being less arcane. I highly doubt this is what's going to happen. Ten years from now we'll be having the same conversation, as we were ten years ago (I have been watching this since '99).