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PERM regulations are also quite lax in MANY ways, and companies abuse this in order to be able to hire at a lower wage.

For example, labor certification (to determine that there is a labor shortage that requires outside talent) is very easy to game: they can run 2 Sunday newspaper ads in the local newspaper to satisfy the primary labor cert requirement: http://tinyurl.com/czhop2f

How many people have newspaper subscriptions anymore, and how many tech workers look for jobs in the newspaper?

It's also easy to game prevailing wage requirements by conducting surveys yourself or playing with the subjective terms of the law regarding 'comparable skillsets' etc