More
than 345,000 visas for high-skilled employment immigration
were awarded in 2016 under the H-1B program, over four
times the legal cap of 85,000, a new report from the
Migration Policy Institute (MPI) has found. Additionally,
among the top 20 H-1B requesting firms, those which were
"H-1B dependent" (i.e., more than 15 percent of employees
were H-1B recipients) paid their immigrant employees less
on average and employed fewer immigrants with at least
master's degrees, lending credence to accusations that
some firms were using the program to crowd out U.S.
citizens. -- http://freebeacon.com/issues/study-number-high-skilled-immigration-visas-quadruples-legal-cap/ (Archived: http://archive.is/nMCmH)