[P-Marlowe]

To truly fix our broken immigration system and take into account our nation’s economic needs, we must put more emphasis on increasing employment-based immigration. There is a current shortage of qualified high-skilled workers in the U.S., with an estimated 230,000 advanced-degree STEM jobs going unfilled by 2018.

Bull Carp. There are more than 230,000 fully qualified Americans who need those jobs that are being taken by foreigners.

My son's company just laid off over 600 fully qualified engineers. They will be moving the jobs somewhere else and then filling them with foreigners who are willing to work for half what these people were making.

If Cruz doesn't reconsider this position I will not be donating to him. At this point I have no candidate.

[xzins]

Cruz must have a flippin’ death wish. A friend is also an information engineer in the STEM field. He says there is no shortage, and he says that as a participant in interviews of these H1Bs that they are (1)deficient in English no matter what their rating says, and (2) they are deficient in tech knowledge no matter what their rating says. His position is that the English issue alone makes their tech knowledge inapplicable at a 50%+ level.