As with the rest of the corporations who hire immigrants, it's "deportations for thee, but keep the workers for me"; deport everyone else's workers, but not min

As with the rest of the corporations who hire immigrants, it's "deportations for thee, but keep the workers for me"; deport everyone else's workers, but not mine. I'd be more OK with Musk's and Ramaswamy's demands if the H1-B structure were changed so that workers could change jobs at will once here. As it is, they are effectively indentured servants, and are only (ab)used because they can lower wage costs. Until 99% of all US tech workers are fully as employed as they want to be and can send out a resume and get multiple interviews in days, there is zero reason to hire overseas (other than trying to exploit workers). When highly educated, experienced, and qualified US tech workers can go months sending out resumes without so much as a nibble, yet corporations are onboarding as many H1Bs as they can, there is something deeply wrong with the system. [edit; add:] And yes, there should be room for the truly exceptional people from overseas who WILL actually help the US make great progress, but they are actually being crowded out by the current corrupt exploitative H1-B process. Making it competitive so H1-B employees can leave at will for another employer (possibly after a reasonable waiting/working period of months) would also help make the system better advance the US technology position in several ways.