I'm a software engineer from Italy and went to work for Intel with an H1B visa back in 2012. The process of getting a H1B visa used to be quite complicated and

I'm a software engineer from Italy and went to work for Intel with an H1B visa back in 2012. The process of getting a H1B visa used to be quite complicated and long even before Trump started dismantle it piece by piece. My salary was perfectly in the range of salaries from other US workers with comparable education and skills. I know that because I had plenty of opportunities and offers to switch company. FAANGS strongly compete for software engineer talent and if one of them (ex company X) would start offering lower salaries the others would likely poach as many employees as they can from company X. I do suspect though that outside of competitive technology driven companies like FAANGS there is plenty of companies that indeed don't care much about technology and innovation and just want to cut the budget. This is especially true for consulting. The USA will loose its edge with the loss of the influx of young talented skilled professionals.