One thing that annoys me is what effectivly amounts to a visa fraud. Consulting companies consume most H1 quota even though the peple they hire effectively work in a different location. They bring L visa people to work in an unrelated company (L1 requires immigrant to have been an employee before coming to US). And then we hear about H1 shortages...

Consulting companies charge fereign workers for visa processing (they disguise the charges as training and such) - which is illegal, keep people on L1 visas without applying for Green Cards (so the employee cannot find a US job without the contractor). And Google et al seem to be perfectly fine with that.