I don't think this is an issue of competing with overseas workers, per se. American companies like H1Bs for two reasons: One, they're generally paid less. I th

I don't think this is an issue of competing with overseas workers, per se. American companies like H1Bs for two reasons: One, they're generally paid less. I think this is usually justified by the employers because of the up front legal costs around the sponsorship, but those costs amortize over time since the salary stays lower each year. Two, they're locked into the job. It's not trivial to get a new sponsor; you can't just randomly job hunt. So when things get bad, the sponsored employees stay when the standard ones leave. And regardless of thoughts around global markets and whatnot, H1Bs are supposed to come with a simple rule: there is no available domestic resource to do the same job. At the point where you have the prior workers training the new workers, that's plainly being violated. It's not supposed to be "nobody to do the job at the sub-market price you're willing to pay." I'm all for global marketplaces, but this isn't really that. This is importing artificially cheap labor into a domestic marketplace. That's a bit more questionable.