It read to me like a puff piece done to prop up the H1-B issue and keep it alive. A lot of New York based, WSJ-friendly companies use H1-B workers because they'

It read to me like a puff piece done to prop up the H1-B issue and keep it alive. A lot of New York based, WSJ-friendly companies use H1-B workers because they're cheap, so even though it's a political non-starter, tripling the number of H1-B's is still a priority for them.