Since the Post reported that Mr. Roye himself was here on an H-1B, we can only hope that he has not been found to be redundant. There are allegedly some 66,000 H-1B applications pending. Well, it calls into question the need for any H-1B cap in the first place. The market, not Congress or the INS, sets the real H-1B limit. It is the law of supply and demand, rather than the micromanaging of Congress, which counts.
Immigration is, it seems, really linked to the business cycle.
If this is so, and it is, then the whole focus of the H-1B debate has been wrong. Numbers are not what the conversation should be about but validity - there is the key. Congress should tell us not how many H-1Bs there can be since the market does that just fine. Congress should tell us how long the H-1B can stay. Validity not numbers are the heart of the matter.