There are a lot of office / IT jobs that can be done by anyone with an education. Instead of a team of H1B from TCS doing BI dashboards, why not a bunch of local college kids? You dont even need a CS degree, any business degree student can do that with a couple days of training. Hell an associates degree should be more than enough. Companies used to hire local people, give aptitude tests and place people.

With H1Bs you get people who will do anything to keep their jobs because that's what keeps them as a legal resident of the country, i.e. people you can underpay and exploit.

If you try to make some College kid work 10-20 hours of unpaid overtime a week they'll just walk.

The entire point is exploitation and downward wage suppression.

They don't hire americans because Americans don't come with the "right" culture for what bad managers want in these roles

> why not a bunch of local college kids

Western college kids are not nearly as subservient and likely to keep their own interests in mind and not offer dog-loyalty to a company that will lay them off at the any sign of turmoil.