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My argument is that the H1Bs meet the bar to be hired at their respective companies. Neither pool is inherently better but availability matters.

There are only so many American engineers that meet said bar, they are all either employed or choosing not to be employed.

The ones that don't meet the bar are either employed by smaller employers with lower bars that don't use H1B anyway or yes, maybe unemployed or transitioning to a new industry because they couldn't hack it.

The mythical group I am saying doesn't exist is engineers that are somehow perfectly capable of meeting FAANG bar but are somehow being displaced by H1B. That group doesn't exist.