America doesn't need native-born Americans to be competitive. Our entire history has been contingent on the labor of immigrants. Surely any American will do.
The failure of the H1B program is that we bring these engineers to America, shackle them to a single employer (relying on that employer's good nature alone to not take advantage of them) and --most egregiously-- after a few years we send them home.
The H1B program should be a simple 'green cards for technical experts' program. Bring in as many technical people as you can reasonably employ: but ffs keep them.
The failure of the H1B program is that we bring these engineers to America, shackle them to a single employer (relying on that employer's good nature alone to not take advantage of them) and --most egregiously-- after a few years we send them home.
The H1B program should be a simple 'green cards for technical experts' program. Bring in as many technical people as you can reasonably employ: but ffs keep them.