I, a US Citizen by birth - born and raised in the US, owe my career to the H1B visa program. I’m self taught and got my first “in” when a local employer wanted

I, a US Citizen by birth - born and raised in the US, owe my career to the H1B visa program. I’m self taught and got my first “in” when a local employer wanted to hire lots of H1B visa folks. I was less qualified, but hired because they needed to prove they were willing to hire non-H1B visa folks in order to hire H1B visa folks. More broadly, I suspect the program I worked at wouldn’t exist without H1B labor. At least not in the US - they might have run it overseas. I’ve been offered insane sums of money at places that mostly hire H1B visa workers - far more than made sense. They wanted to hire me as evidence they were hiring people like me. And they paid me accordingly. The H1B people I worked with have became friends and mentors. OK, the ones who weren’t faking it.