To use your phrasing, literally millions of Americans don't even meet the minimum quality bar to even qualify for a TN/H1B if they were to do it from scratch.

Maybe Americans will be well served to understand that the current visa regime is severely dysfunctional, and that it serves to boost egos of more incompetent and uneducated Trump-ians, and less the interests of US in obtaining talent and even less in giving brilliant minds all over the world an equal playing field.