"Immigrants are a Big Force in Driving American Innovation" but h1b workers are <i>not</i> immigrants. They and their family have very little rights as workers in the US.<p>If the motivation is really to bring innovation to the US, cancel the h1b status and simplify the green card sponsorship via employment. But let's be real, that's not the goal. The goal is to bring servile underpaid peons to the valley to drag tech wages down.<p>I was an h1b for 4 years.
How about banning the biggest H-1B abusers (Infosys, TCS) from applying new visa for a few years? (They are also the biggest visa applier)<p><a href="http://www.epi.org/blog/new-data-infosys-tata-abuse-h-1b-program/" rel="nofollow">http://www.epi.org/blog/new-data-infosys-tata-abuse-h-1b-pro...</a><p><a href="http://www.latimes.com/opinion/editorials/la-ed-visas-tech-workers-h1b-20150217-story.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.latimes.com/opinion/editorials/la-ed-visas-tech-w...</a><p><a href="http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/features/smartbuy/tech-news/h1b-workers-have-minimal-skills-infosys-whistleblower/article7006778.ece" rel="nofollow">http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/features/smartbuy/tech-n...</a>
Or, as proposed elsewhere, keep the cap and remove the lottery system. Grant visas to the top paid applicants. This removes allows companies with a need to great engineers to pay for them, and reduces the influx of lower quality H1-B's.