&quot;an internal report in the National Science Foundation, a key government agency, actually advocated the use of the H-1B program as a means of holding down PhD salaries, by flooding the job market with foreign students. The NSF added that the stagnation of salaries would push domestic students away from PhD study, which is exactly what has happened&quot;.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;heather.cs.ucdavis.edu&#x2F;h1b10min.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;heather.cs.ucdavis.edu&#x2F;h1b10min.html</a>