>seriously undermine wages for software devs here, I imagine.
How? They can only be approved if they're getting paid the same or more than existing software devs.
How? They can only be approved if they're getting paid the same or more than existing software devs.
Ha. Look at some writeups of the SoCal Edison outsourcing, for example. U.S. citizens making $95K were replaced with H1-B workers earning $60-65K, and that's generously estimating the lower salaries. Tata and Infosys might pay their workers closer to $40-50K.
They're currently under investigation for violating the immigration labor laws surrounding the H1B [1].
It's a different problem than the cap or the problem in the article. You're always going to have agencies trying to abuse a system regardless of whether there is a cap or not, and they will be investigated and penalized accordingly.
http://www.natlawreview.com/article/commentary-tata-consulta...
Meaning if there was a cap (or no cap), there would still be enforcement making it a non-issue.