It would be much easier to just take the ones with the highest salaries, and then say they could change jobs after one year in the US.
That would call the tech giants bluff. They might find that US citizens are cheaper.
Proxy-luser, That is an interesting solution for consideration how to better protect US employees from low cost foreign labor. It might need an adjustment to the time period before the foreign employee can become a ”free agent”. I am sure the employers need at least a year of training before the employee even becomes profitable.
Regardless, in my opinion these Indian engineers will end up working somewhere. Which is the lesser of two evils: they go to foreign firm to provide low cost labor, or come to the US to keep our tech industry strong?
I credit President Trump with opening my eyes to how much the US has come to depend on foreign interests (especially China) for our economic welfare in tech and other fields..
If you want to get scared, read about Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (“TMCC”). That company has a global stranglehold on the production capacity and know-how to make the latest semiconductor chips for other companies. That used to be a US- dominated business.
Consider what would happen to our economy and the rest of the world if something were to happen to that to single company if Taiwan and China get into a war. (China cannot come close to matching that company after spending many years and hundreds of billions). It requires a very long time, tens of billions, but more importantly the very specialized know-how.
I don’t want to live to see the same thing happen to other parts of the domestic tech business and other scientific industries.
P.S. For more information about the globally strategic importance of this single Taiwanese company TSMC, take a look at the article published last year in a journal of the US Army War College. The authors recommend that the Taiwanese government should announce as a deterrent that the TSMC facilities will be immediately destroyed if China attacks Taiwan. TSMC must be pretty darned important that the authors believe China would be deterred from attacking Taiwan by the mere threat of its destruction of one company.
See https://www.theregister.com/2022/01/05/taiwan_should_destory_tsmc_paper/
for a discussion.