I wish the stated goal of H-1B was "brain drain -> let's attract all the best talent in the world to the US, and keep the US (and US companies) the epicenter of

I wish the stated goal of H-1B was "brain drain -> let's attract all the best talent in the world to the US, and keep the US (and US companies) the epicenter of the tech industry, medical industry, research universities, etc.". The stated end-game should be getting the best people in the world to stay in the US and become citizens. I feel like this could be a bulwark against offshoring, and in the big picture, protect US jobs overall. I think the system as-is is fundamentally broken. First and foremost, it needs to include equity when comparing the salary to US persons - H-1Bs are supposed to require "equal pay" to US persons, but they only look at base salary. I also think consultant firms need to be fixed. They need some cap such as "no more than 1 in 10 engineers in your teams may be H-1B. This should include consultants you use - e.x. if a company employs 20 engineers, and they have 10 active consultants, no more than 3 H1-bs across both in-company employees and consultants used. The consulting farms are the biggest abusers by far, and the low hanging fruit to target and fix. If we can't figure some workable way to fix it, just ban consulting companies from having H-1Bs outright. The system is also needlessly cruel to applicants. They should have some long buffer, say on the order of a tourist visa (6 months?) if they lose their job so they have time to try and find a new one before losing status. Can you imagine putting your kids in school and buying a house in an at-will state, on an H-1B? Yeesh.