+1. While some companies might be abusing the system and using it to get cheap foreign labor, the US also gets highly talented foreigners to work for its compan

+1. While some companies might be abusing the system and using it to get cheap foreign labor, the US also gets highly talented foreigners to work for its companies through this immigration system. Companies pay these talented people exceptional compensation because they want top competitive people to work for them. It is hard for them to find a large pool of similar talent locally (not that American workers aren't talented, but it's just that as skill and talent increase, the pool keeps on getting smaller). Highly skilled foreign workers are America's competitive advantage to the world. Now other countries realize it, which is why countries like Canada reformed their immigration system a few years back to invite skilled foreign workers by offering them permanent residence. Canada is now poaching people San Francisco bay area, offering them PR even if they don't make the cut-off in their point-based immigration system because they know that if they want to be the tech leader in world, they need this foreign talent pool.