What’s often overlooked is that companies hiring foreign workers face increased compliance costs, legal fees, and administrative overhead. To be sure, most CIOs turn to foreign talent for highly specialized IT skills rather than cost savings. Curtailing immigration also creates incentives for CIOs to over-automate and push remaining staff past the breaking point, she argues. Yet these problems don’t negate the value of foreign workers in the US economy. While USCIS continues to use a random selection lottery that rewards volume over merit, the Trump administration has revised the idea of basing H1-B visas on wages.