Not really the question here. The H1B visa is intended to specifically target industries with a shortage of workers. Even as someone who arrived in the country

Not really the question here. The H1B visa is intended to specifically target industries with a shortage of workers. Even as someone who arrived in the country on an H1B myself I question whether software engineering is experiencing a shortage these days given the mass layoffs we’ve seen lately. Whether we should prioritize local workers over foreign (and whether we have enough local workers) is a much broader political question.