He lost me with his first false equivalency.<p>To keep with his basketball analogy, imagine a basketball league with a separate farm system. There is an unspoken agreement that the farm system will train basketball players and when the major league needs them the farm system will get a percentage of the players salary. Now the major league teams are using players that didn&#x27;t go through the farm system, and are only playing garbage time (80% of H-1Bs are paid on the lower 2 tiers of the DOL pay scale).<p>So young people and families see that the farm system isn&#x27;t really all that viable and so they either don&#x27;t participate or chose a different sport all together. Ultimately the farm system dries up...<p>I also skimmed your views, and I&#x27;d like to address the straw man in your moral section. People that are against H-1B aren&#x27;t trying to keep out other people. I&#x27;d prefer that if we do indeed have a shortage which requires special immigration visas that we have actual hard evidence of the shortage first and if the data shows it then to focus on encouraging employers and education institutions to train citizens first. If that can&#x27;t be done, I&#x27;d rather we automatically give citizenship to those that we deem are vital to our economy instead of keeping them in immigration limbo that is the H-1B system.