USCIS is challenging an unusually large number of H-1B applications

Cracking down on Indian outsourcers is one thing, but if this is true

> The skeptical eye the government is taking to applications has extended to all types of employers, according to immigration lawyers. Many are rethinking their own use of H-1B as a result.

This is absolutely disastrous. I personally know families on H1B from well-known American companies are afraid to leave the country because of this.

This program was abused badly by US and Indian companies and put a number of engineers in subservient position. I will not shed a tear for those companies.

For people, we should have one clear policy and apply it, if they can't come, so be it, but tell them clearly what they can get and what they cannot. And allow some transparency of the income and rates so that it can't be abused as much.

   Even though Silicon Valley sees the H-1B program as one of
   its top political priorities, this campaign of reform by 
   red tape has avoided the frantic political fights 
   surrounding other aspects of immigration, like the proposed
   travel ban or the cancellation of DACA, a program for those
   who came to the country as undocumented children. 

This is conflating two different things - DACA and travel ban are issues related to immigration; H-1B is about temporary guest workers. The (skilled) immigration issue which concerns most of SV is green card backlogs. That has not gotten any attention from SV leadership.

  For people, we should have one clear policy and apply it,
  if they can't come, so be it, but tell them clearly what 
  they can get and what they cannot. 

+1.

So now they’re just doing what was supposed to have been happening the entire time? I’m having difficulty sympathizing with these companies and lawyers when all they have to do is apparently file more paperwork.