No, Spktyr is not lying. Here in Dallas/Fort Worth, we have negative unemployment in IT.
It’s not about paying more for Americans. Most employers are willing to do so to avoid the burdensome paperwork involved with HB1. The fact is that college grads in IT don’t know squat about the real world.
Conservatives have been saying for decades that universities are churning out idiots who think they are owed a job regardless of competence. It’s horsesh*t to now say, “Well, if you pay them more, they’ll learn it.”
It ain’t rocket science. There is a whole new industry in IT for post-graduate STEMs that is essentially providing IT bootcamps.
As for working remotely, that’s usually true but not always. Sometimes, one has to be on site.
New laws, policies with significant limits are needed across the board regarding immigration. Legal and illegal folks including H1B and the rest. It’s the way it needs to be for now regardless of what some engineering firm in LA, or Denver wants for the right price. Those same engineering firms also hire thousands of illegals for their stoop labor through their contractors etc. The same firms bribe the politicians to get what they want. It’s slow national suicide.
There are ways to put young Americans who’d really want those jobs into those jobs. I understand it’s about their bottom line. I know most American and *foreign* owned biz here couldn’t care less about American allegiance. Biz is about profits and bottom line.
It’s a viscous cycle which makes as much sense as our government institutions, universities and colleges handing out worthless or unneeded diplomas to young Americans, while foreigners are invited in for good paying American jobs. All this while millions of others enter through federal government borders illegal taking a huge number of low tech middle class jobs. Who are the winners here?
This vicious cycle cannot be perpetuated. Like the man said, We’re in big trouble. America is broken it needs to be fixed.