"Fred Humphries, a vice president at Microsoft, one of the biggest users of H-1B visas, said they would have “a positive economic impact.”
He continued, under his breath, "Because Microsoft wouldn't have to pay prevailing wage to even more engineers".
Look - if you're outside the US you can ignore this comment but for those of us in the US, this is a screw job.
Most H-1Bs are used to import cheap - ridiculously cheap - labor and displace middle class workers. Period. There are almost always people in the US that can do the work but not at the wage that the Msoft or whomever would like to pay. The "we can't find qualified workers" bullshit is just that.
As if the collusion to suppress wages wasn't bad enough...