[spiralpolitik]

The 100k threshold will do nothing for body shops. They will structure it so that on paper every employee makes the required amount to keep the DOL/DHS happy while clawing it back from the employee through "fees", "charges", and other underhanded tactics.

They've always done this and always will.

[Daishiman]

It increases the threshold of money involved, increases the amount of potential accounting tricks they have to do, and it raises the bar.

Political measures don't need to be absolutely effective to be useful. Raising the difficulty might be enough to deter a large number of fraudulent applications.