> And realistically, most companies aren’t going to pay such a large premium just for a typical software engineer.

This is the point, I think (whether I agree or not)

"Hire locally!" as a catch phrase wasn't working.

Then probably just more outsourcing? Which again, maybe the point is more to keep people from coming here and less to help American workers?

	▲	leakycap 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		If the job was easy to effectively outsource, it would have been much cheaper for hiring organizations to outsource years ago rather than bring employees in on H-1Bs before this announcement.