There are already far too many US college grads who can’t get jobs. I have friends who had 1500+ SAT scores with stem degrees who never found meaningful work. Give these people jobs before you give it to the Chinese.
+ "Give these people jobs before you give it to the Chinese." is just slightly racist, I'm not saying it's entirely objectionable, but you could just say 'non-citizen'.
+ It's way harder to hire someone on H1B than a local. There is a reason they are being hired. 1500+ SAT is nice but it's not magic entry point for a job.
There are definitely some kinds of jobs - 'Plain IT' where Tata and some Indian companies are just 'India First'. That's H1B abuse.
But by and large, that's not the case.
It's better to consider 'tightening up the program' if you think it should be, as opposed to making very broad considerations.
'Broad Brushstroke' stopping of these programs will definitely hurt the US.
If you can’t train a 1500+ SAT and instead need to import non citizens to fill your jobs you have failed as a society.
If they had a CS degree, and were generally decent communicators and 'responsible actors' ... and could not get a job - now that's a problem.
Recent college grads have had a harder time, but is slowly improving again [1]. All college grads are around 3% which is usually considered full employment. It was so easy for so long, any reversion to normal is met with the sky is falling. We haven't really seen that yet. The job market is also much much larger than big tech.
In my own experience trying to hire people, it's hard to filter real resumes from fakes/garbage. I have to think this issue is making it slower to hire recent grads.
[1] https://www.newyorkfed.org/research/college-labor-market#--:...