This does not drive wages down. Legally, H1B/Perm applicants need to be paid identical compensation to US-hired resources, and Apple is legally mandated to report the offers they make to anyone granted a visa under the program.

Tech companies love the H1B process because sponsored employees can’t simply quit, or they lose their visa. In most cases, they also love it because the employees they’re bringing in are not new hires, they’re overseas employees that are a known quantity.

The “slaves” in question here are being compensated between 160K-220K base salary, and 250K-350K total comp.