As someone, who argues for H1b, I support these changes. The H1b visa should be restricted to the well-qualified, i.e. people who hold Master's degrees or higher and actually qualified for the jobs (not the body shopping TCS & Wipro types).
She didn’t know what null was. Nor did she know how to write a single line of code.
Which leads me to believe that Either she lied about that degree (unlikely because her visa was tied to it), or that a masters isn’t a sign of anything.
But strict enforcement is needed to prevent H1b fraud by body-shoppers. I do believe there is a significant need for H1b developers, just a higher quality filter.
This is true, however people making decisions do not hold this opinion.
I have an MS but my undergrad degree was liberal arts, I’m sure there are plenty of BS comp sci degree holders who know as much or more than me about topics.
Requiring an MS for immigration is questionable to me.
I'm not so sure a masters is a good indicator of much these days.
In engineering maths, people lean on Wolfram Alpha to solve and break down equations then pretend like they understand because they know the steps. You can look up endless discussion and breakdown of rhetoric and take a position as your own without applying much critical thought beforehand. Cliffnotes. People these days seems to think that because they can look up information it's the same as knowing it.
That's before we get into issues such as institutional cheating. I know a person who makes most of his daily cash shadow writing essays for college and high school students. It's done through an anonymizing method on the web. No idea how many he actually writes, but he seems to write a lot of them especially late spring/fall.
I've taken courses in grad school where the professor lets you bring a laptop to the exams to lookup whatever you want. You still can't solve his problems if you don't understand the basics.