The skills shortage issue, in my experience is the inability to find someone with the specific skills and talents for a given job. It is real, as anyone who&#x27;s tried to hire in certain areas can testify. It is not a strict commodity market where terms like shortage are easy to define. The purpose of the H1B visa is to make it easy for US companies to look for talent wherever in the world it is available without having to open up offices there. It fails to do this in an equitable manner. One can arrive at this conclusion without invoking STEM shortage and implying that foreign workers are somehow deficient.<p>Frankly the only place where H1B seems to be &quot;misused&quot; is in the outsourcing industry. And that too it is &quot;misused&quot; if you look it from a protectionist perspective.<p>I&#x27;ve never seen any high skilled jobs going to H1Bs just because it is cheaper. In fact I&#x27;ve seen the opposite: small and mid-size companies hesitating to hire H1Bs because of the uncertainties involved.<p>Also, PhD glut in bio has nothing to do with H1B! The author misleadingly brings it up because it has the &quot;woah&quot; factor to buttress his argument.<p>Also can somehow explain to me how it is not protectionism to forge Disney to do something in house while it can be done cheaper by engaging a foreign company like Infosys?