I vouched for your comment and made it visible, even though I disagree with parts of it. I agree that there are two "tiers" of H1B workers. But statistically,

I vouched for your comment and made it visible, even though I disagree with parts of it. I agree that there are two "tiers" of H1B workers. But statistically, the vast majority belong to the body shop tier. And many if not most of those workers end up in cities where the salary for tech workers are definitely not making $200,000/year, and where it's much harder to find a decent programming job. I agree that there should be a visa program for companies who cannot actually find workers with certain skills. Actually, there is such a program (forgetting the visa name, it's for immigrants with outstanding contributions to a field). Perhaps it should be widened. But such a program can never cover companies looking for cheap programmers for CRUD apps, like the current H1B often does. Actually, I think I agree with all but your very first sentence, which the rest of your comment doesn't seem to support. A more accurate statement would be "The H1B doesn't always directly allow worker exploitation".