My company opened up a highly technical position in the greater Boston area and we were flooded with 250 applications in a week. Phone screens went out to almost everyone remotely qualified but so much of the applications were spam/YOLO from people from the asian subcontinent, close to 80% were not even remotely qualified. I went out of my way to sift through any qualified female applicants and there were less than five in total and none had the experience we were looking for, even very remotely. In the end we hired a handful very talented people from very different backgrounds and none were from the public channels. We worked with a handful of recruiters that had established relationships with top talent. We also had to fire some recruiters that kept sending us low IQ people.
They got you distracted with H1b, when the real problem is outsourcing. Companies want to make dollars here, but they don't want to keep the dollar circulating. And then we end up in a situation where they run out of customers and need a bailout.
Trump created huge delays and people I worked with that went on vacation were stuck in India. Lots of companies were put on notice for abusing H1B and legitimate candidates were impacted.
The issues was never the quantity, it’s been the quality. I believe companies like Deloitte had created corruption pipelines where money got you on the path to H1B.