That's a well reasoned argument, I am especially thrilled to hear one that didn't appeal to the extremes, although I don't agree that there is a direct causal

That's a well reasoned argument, I am especially thrilled to hear one that didn't appeal to the extremes, although I don't agree that there is a direct causal relationship between supposedly low salaries and h1b. Here's a quick experiment, click clearancejobs.com [1], as of this writing it lists 50K+ well paying jobs (high 6-figs) fully reserved for US Citizens, especially those whose antecedents can be traced. And this usually means people with surnames like Smith, Green, Johnson et al. And, this is just one website, over say a job cycle time of a few weeks. Now one can extrapolate that there are hundreds of thousands of such jobs. Now H1b is 65K Visas a year, Let's say that 80% of H1b are fraudulent - which it is NOT, but just for the sake of argument, let's say 80% are outright fakes - this is more than offset by very high paying US citizen only jobs in on a single website, over just a few weeks! Now salaries might not be going up as as much as some wish for, but in an economy there are many more variables than just supply & demand, that determine wages. I would also remind you tech worker salaries are already among the highest, if not the highest, salaries in any professional class. Only very specialized doctors like Neurosurgeons, plastic surgeons etc make more. To somehow say that H1b is the root of all evil can only come from a very spoilt entitled class - dare-I-say White American Males - that has all the bountiful benefit of an economy with FULL employment, Actually FULL++ employment. And yet, they are just so fragile, entitled and selfish.... H1b is, at most, a _minor_ inconvenience to a set of very spoilt brats, used to having it their way, or throwing a tantrum otherwise. 65K jobs is not even a droplet in the ocean that's the US economy, and yet the fact that this issue gets some much coverage is a testament to the power of this very privileged group. [1] www.clearancejobs.com