The 85k H1B figure is misleading. Disney doesn't employ these people, they outsource to HCL. HCL hires Indian workers. Who's to say they need H1Bs for these

The 85k H1B figure is misleading. Disney doesn't employ these people, they outsource to HCL. HCL hires Indian workers. Who's to say they need H1Bs for these people at all. Also, for every Indian tech team lead in the US, they often hand the work off to a team of ten people back in India who don't need H1Bs at all. The average Indian programming wage I believe is about $3-4 hr. The question is US companies outsourcing to companies with a primarily foreign workforce, and displacing US jobs. There have been estimates that outsourcing has caused the loss of 1.5-2 million US jobs since 2000. There's several considerations involved including the need to have skilled tech workers in the US, but its certainly a serious societal issue in the US.