Yes, in the short term. That's actually the original goal of the H1B program, to address immediate labor shortages in fields where the time it takes to become f

Yes, in the short term. That's actually the original goal of the H1B program, to address immediate labor shortages in fields where the time it takes to become fully trained is very long (PhDs and the like.) In the long term the problem solves itself with things like high salaries for statisticians, actuaries, programmers and so on.