&gt; These workers aren&#x27;t uniquely skilled, engineering grand masters, but are rank-and-file IT often with bachelor&#x27;s degrees and supplementary on-the-job training. But their salaries often come to $100,000 or more, leaving them vulnerable to lower-cost imported workers.<p>Okay, but if they aren&#x27;t skilled and no shortage exists then why aren&#x27;t companies able to find cheaper US based graduates?<p>&gt; Employers are legally required to pay visa holders the &quot;local prevailing wage&quot; for their jobs, but enforcement is porous. &quot;It is extraordinarily easy to pay an H-1B worker much less than an American worker,&quot; Hira observed; the trick lies in how the job is defined<p>So fix this.<p>&gt; Evidence is ample that the very claim of a STEM shortage in the U.S. is phony. Salzman noted that &quot;overall, our colleges and universities graduate twice the number of STEM graduates as find a job each year.&quot; The mismatch is especially stark in the biomedical field. There, according to a 2014 paper by experts from UC San Francisco, Harvard and Princeton, &quot;the training pipeline produces more scientists than relevant positions in academia, government, and the private sector are capable of absorbing.&quot;<p>Wow. That&#x27;s compelling evidence since everyone known STEM degrees are entirely interchangeable.<p>How many H1-Bs are given out to biomedical graduates?