[Protagoras]

However, the US is bursting at the seams with unemployed computer engineers and well-educated professionals who are displaced by outsourcing and H-1B visas.

So they are willing to work for the same price?

Basic economics.

We wouldn't have Mexican people working on lawn care if it paid $40M a year would we?

Price yourself out of the market and then cry about those willing to work for less.

[dennisw]

Price yourself out of the market and then cry about those willing to work for less.

 You and your close family get priced out of job markets and you will be squealing a different tune. Lawyers and hack politicians seem immune to insourcing (low priced immigrants) and outsourcing

[rahbert]

How much less are you willing to work for?
Do I hear you signing up for a pay cut?

When you sic 'basic economics' on others
do be aware that you aren't immune...

[WayneM]

As opposed to employers offering to pay 30% less than market, and bitch and moan that you cannot get anyone to take the job...

Then complaining to government that there is a labor shortage.

Then pressuring/lobbying/bribing (legally, of course, with campaign contributions) their representatives and the representatives of others to change immigration laws in order to tilt the playing field in their favor.

Then hiring someone from a country where $2,500/year allows someone to live in luxury.