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> while in US you have to pay 100k for each h1b.

This is rather evidence that this requirement (at least sometimes) does what it should do: it disincentivizes US branches of companies to hire foreigners in the USA by making such hires more expensive.

Thus, instead foreign branches of US companies hire foreigners. Why the complaints: now in the USA less foreigners get hired instead of US citizens, exactly what was requested.