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I'd put this in the blind pig find truffle category. H1-B is perfectly sensible if you read the regulations and the law: if you can't find someone to do the job in the US, you can hire outside. Not "if you can't find someone to do the job cheap cheaper."

The problem is, with enough lawyering, that's exactly what happens: wage suppression. Having met and used some very sharp immigration lawyers, trying to outfox them is going to be very difficult. If you want to change how H1-B actually works, change the economics.