<p>Turbo93, I don’t find it to be the case that people on H-1Bs are more up on the latest technology than American workers. I find most H-1Bs with x years of experience to be relatively equivalent to US programmers with x years of experience.</p>
<p>As I said before, I’m all for H-1Bs who are among the best and the brightest, but I’ve seen too many inexperienced H-1Bs cost better-qualified Americans jobs simply because the H-1Bs were cheaper and more submissive to management. That wasn’t what the H-1B program was supposed to be about.</p>
<p>The people I saw replaced certainly weren’t old Cobol programmers. They were Java programmers in their 20s and 30s, back when Java was really hot.</p>