Comment My take on this (Score 1) 605
Sure companies abuse H1B visa programs, and I've seen it first hand. I worked for a firm and aside from a large India based branch office, we had a dozen or so Indian workers in the US office on work visa's. I've see the salary numbers, they made considerably less than their US citizen counterparts. As did the Chinese, Russian, and other slavic imported workers.
While I agree that if someone wishes to work for less, that's fine, but the corporations do need to play by the rule currently in place. Specifically that they are unable to find similar workers in the US do fill the positions.
When my company did a considerable downsize, they let go almost all the US workers, and kept the foreign ones. Most of them were junior and at lower salaries than the ones they let go. So, if they claim they 'cannot' find adequate workers in the US, why did they just lay off a ton and keep the ones on visa?