Please ban together and help Americans that are highly educated in IT / IS get back to work. It's time we started helping our own buy providing more local jobs. More jobs = more taxes, houses, cars, grocery's etc. all helping our economy and almost every dollar being spent or saved here in the USA. Where does all the H1B visa money go?
We pushed for so many years to train US people in higher education, so tens of thousands did to find out that the market is saturated so explain to us how we need H1B visas here.
Quick web search shown from
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H-1B_visa#H-1B_Applications_Approved
Year Initial Renewals+Extensions Total
2008 109,335 166,917 276,252
2009 86,300 127,971 214,271
2010 76,627 116,363 192,990
2011 106,445 163,208 269,653