Sadly, there are a lot of technical jobs that it’s hard to find adequate U.S. candidates to fill.
The majority of slots for graduate degrees are taken by foreign born students. These students need Visas to stay here, or we send them back to their country with the education we give them.
One of the reasons they’re hard to fill is because Americans don’t go into them as much because wages are pushed down by cheap H1b’s. They can afford to work for cheaper than Americans can because they didn’t get saddled with ridiculously expensive college educations....expenses driven up when colleges got fat and happy on guaranteed government student loans such that they added all kinds of highly paid administrators for “diversity” and other such BS.
Does anybody wonder why so many younger people in the US support Bernie and the Socialists? They’re getting screwed on education costs, screwed in the job market and the flood of foreigners drives up house prices so they can’t get on the first rung of the property ladder either.
“there are a lot of technical jobs that it’s hard to find adequate U.S. candidates to fill.”
I find that hard to believe, since there are 3.5 million under- or unemployed American STEM degree holders.
That's bunk. What you're really saying is that it's hard to find U.S. candidates to fill at rock bottom wages.
If you pay what the market demands then there will be adequate American workers to do the job. H1B visas exist solely so employers can depress market wages. We're a nation of 330 million people with the best university system in the world. We have well educated Americans available for any job if the employer is paying wages the market demands.