The important takeaway that is lost/neglected both in the article and the comments is that the bulk of H1-B visa is allotted to cheap body shop entry level deve

The important takeaway that is lost/neglected both in the article and the comments is that the bulk of H1-B visa is allotted to cheap body shop entry level developers. A lot of fussing over high end Google / Microsoft positions obscures this truth that is evident from perusing the actual H1-B statistics. I've posted here before, but within a short commute from my home in Arizona, I can tally thousands of jobs displaced by the combination of H1-B / offshore (and this is not an either/or but a both/and strategy). Does anyone contest that this is countervailing effect on new vocational entries? And the truth that median/average salaries have not raised significantly exposes that indeed, to call it a shortage is myth. I suppose it depends upon the local market but here I see developer positions (PHP web development) being filled at $7.50 - $15 per hour, hourly rates bested by those not even possessing a college degree. Now, before somebody spouts off some PHP bashing and that those job slots merit only that pay level, consider that those old school / mainframe programming jobs that were supplanted by NIV / offshore coders paid 2-3X this mark for a less comprehensive skill set.