[dowcaet]

If we’re gonna get on Scott Walker for his inconsistency on immigration the same needs to be said for Ted Cruz’s silly support for expanding the number of H-1B visas. He should be proposing legislation giving tax breaks and incentives to high tech companies and colleges and universities to train and employ American born tech workers. I’m tired of American companies getting engineers, doctors, and scientists on the cheap from overseas. An engineer from China and a computer scientist from India who are here on worker visas means two less high paying jobs for two Americans. That should anger all of us.

[Hardens Hollow]

“He should be proposing legislation giving tax breaks and incentives to high tech companies and colleges and universities to train and employ American born tech workers. I’m tired of American companies getting engineers, doctors, and scientists on the cheap from overseas. An engineer from China and a computer scientist from India who are here on worker visas means two less high paying jobs for two Americans. That should anger all of us.”

It should, but here’s the reality: the number of engineers in this country from our universities is dropping for American students. Only a small percentage of our kids in high school take physics and calculus - therefore, few are ready to major in engineering. Our schools have done an abysmal job of getting our kids ready - or encouraging them to study hard - for such a curriculum.

US schools have been at the bottom or near bottom in the Trends in International Math and Science Studies (TIMMS) ever since they were started in 1983. We cannot compete internationally scholastically, so how can we compete economically?

The majority of masters degrees in engineering from OUR universities were earned by foreign students!

If you want to be mad, be mad at the public educational system hijacking by liberals and the intentional dumbing down of the curriculum. THAT is what has caused this mess.

[JustaCowgirl]

There are tons of people here on H-1B visas who have been here for many years. And in all that time they've been taking skilled jobs from Americans. And if a company loses a foreign worker because of H-1B problems, they just import another cheap worker and use that person. And for those Americans who do have a skilled job, the presence of low-pay foreign workers drives down their salary structure.

I honestly don't know what is Ted Cruz's stance on this, but I can say absolutely that the H-1B problem is a huge problem for American skilled workers.