The meaning of unobtainable by recruiting domestically has been tortured to death by lawyers. I don't know what to do about that. $100 K feels like too much except for a relative handful of engineers on very high value projects. But it does have the simplicity of a direct effect on anyone trying to cheap out by using H1B visas.
If employers hadn't been caught doing anti-poaching deals, I'd have more sympathy for them.
I’d say let’s absolutely support the $100,000 H-1B fee policy. Let’s bake it into national policy such that it outlasts even Trump.
If people are going to vote for the Leopards-Eating-People’s-Faces party, let’s give them every opportunity to have their faces eaten off.