Built in America by the same people who would have been building it elsewhere. If US workers could be hired for those jobs they could just skip the H1b part and

Built in America by the same people who would have been building it elsewhere. If US workers could be hired for those jobs they could just skip the H1b part and hire domestically in the first place. And I think you are hugely underestimating the effect on salaries. But as for bigger market benefits to domestic workers, this requires H1b's to not be handed out fast enough to keep up with the growth of the market (which I think is finally happening recently, hence the big salaries in SV). But this is the same supply and demand effect we would have gotten without the H1b program in the first place. > Or can. A lot of schools are happy to admit almost anyone, but will have 1/3 of incoming freshmen transfer to other majors after a year. Definitely agree about this part though. A big reason some countries can achieve higher number of grads or better ratios of one kind or another, is with a dumbed-down program that requires mostly memorization and teaches nothing in depth.