Then it’s not meritocracy.

That’s not the idea of the U.S. immigration system at all if that were the case these limits would apply to family based immigration classes too.

You want FIFO vs SFQ.

SFQ:

"Prevents a single aggressive download, peer-to-peer stream, or Denial of Service (DoS) attack from starving other users or conversations on the link. Requires very low CPU overhead compared to strict per-flow fair queueing."