My Thoughts on H1B Visas

After 25 years spent in IT at various companies, I can't STAND the H1B visa program. It is criminal what these companies are doing when American graduates with tech degrees can't get jobs in their fields. The saying that "they can't find American workers" is a filthy LIE. They want cheap foreign workers who in my experience aren't 1/2 as qualified as the American worker yet they will work cheaply and won't complain because they'll get deported thus the company has a cheap virtual slave. Never once have I EVER seen an H1B hired because they couldn't find an American worker with the skill set needed--- it's always that they are cheap AND they keep tech wages much lower than they should be. One former employer (a Fortune 500 company) 10 years ago had almost all American workers. They now have all of their lower level work done in India (which is very low quality and always messed up) and here in the U.S., their IT workforce is 75% H1Bs and 25% Americans (who are worked to death fixing everyone else's mistakes). Most of the American workers were let go and this company makes Billions in profits a year yet pays almost no taxes. One other thing is that 90% of the H1Bs (most from India) have absolutely NO desire to ever stay in the U.S. All of them come here, save money, get experience, and after 5 years go home with $100,000 and live great and then get jobs with U.S. companies that have opened offices in India to support U.S. operations. Understand that I have no issue with the workers from India doing this because if I were in their shoes, I'd be doing the same thing. It's just a sick system where the American worker is being harmed and I'm tired of company's and the government's lies on this issue.