I've been annoyed for years now that "H1B reform" is somehow restricted to conservative, anti-immigration positions. The pro-immigration, free-market solution w

I've been annoyed for years now that "H1B reform" is somehow restricted to conservative, anti-immigration positions. The pro-immigration, free-market solution would still address all the issues with contract/consulting abuses. I'd love to see the H-1B visa cap expanded, I'd just like it to be done alongside a move to let workers actually enter the labor market like citizens. The current "must pay market rates" setup is a bizarre attempt to duplicate market results under a command system, and we see all of the mis-labelling and other abuses we'd expect with that approach. I did see that as of 2017 there's a brief window to find a new visa'd job after leaving an H-1B position, which is a nice start. But I'd really rather see the thing reformed via something like "he's a skilled labor visa, go for it". Even if employers were still forced to apply for visa slots it'd be progress to say "here are people with visas, here are companies with slots, coordinate however you'd like".