If they cut all the H1Bs and cut off the means for legal immigrants to enter the US, then the companies can just hire in legal entities outside the US. This will help them, but the US will lose intelligent migrants. Of couse, the democrats wiould love unskilled illegals...
I’m not educated on the process enough to have an opinion on the numbers for these visas, but I don’t like India inserting itself into our political process. Can they? Sure. Do I like them telling us what to do? NO.
Hey, it’s a tempest in a teapot.
The H1 policy was started by BushOne, and enthusiastically supported by Clinton and BushTwo. The focus is on India, but other nations benefit, Irishmen on Cape Cod, Poles in Maine.....
As it is, research, and not only services are moving to places like India, and while that is not remotely any threat to American innovation currently, America should at least be aware that innovations from say GE Labs in India might start having an impact soon, like the recent cheap laptop and the neoCar, ($2500 a pop) by Tata.
I have no problem with intelligent immigrants to the U.S. but that era ended with the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 which allowed unlimited chain migration of the world's underclass.