Why would it force employers to hire Americans if it's tied to total employees? 90 offshore and 10 H1-B employees is still only 10% H1-B. The entire premise of

Why would it force employers to hire Americans if it's tied to total employees? 90 offshore and 10 H1-B employees is still only 10% H1-B. The entire premise of the H1-B program is when there is a shortage of qualified/available domestic labor. Turning around and tying hiring in the program to having 9x as many domestic employees seems like it's so counter to that notion that not even the government would create such an inanely contradictory policy.