Is this accurate? According to this person, it's not for faking lack of candidates in order to secure an H1B, but rather for the green card process:
Not very easily these days. There's a yearly limit on H1-B visas, and more applications than visas, so they're assigned by lottery. For 2019 there was only a 32% chance of selection: https://www.immi-usa.com/h1b-lottery-2016-results-chances-pr...