I have a lot of thoughts on this; mostly in the dissonence between tech and non tech workers and how they look at external competition.<p>Most of the H1-B situation seems to focus on the various abuses of the companies utilizing it, which is fair, however, there seems little reflexive &quot;we should give our jobs to the locals&quot; attitude expressed, for whatever reason.<p>Compared this to other disciplines, where that sort of protectionism (and I don&#x27;t mean to necessarily imply negative connotations) seems to be either more acceptable or more agreed upon.<p>If state vs state competition is looked down on (when the entire purpose of the federal US was initially largely to support and facilitate interstate commerce), I&#x27;m just surprised that there&#x27;s not more buzz just directly at country vs country competition.  Is it that we&#x27;re in a high paying field, and can &quot;deal with&quot; the resultant wage drops better?  Is it that the issue is being avoided to avoid sensitive topics?  I&#x27;d be curious to hear some thoughts on this, since there certainly seems to be very domain-specific responses to the impetus of non-native competition.