You have a special problem with Filipinos? My primary care physician is a very sharp Filipino immigrant. His wife is also a doctor. Both are uberCatholics. Their kids are admitted to Harvard as Valedictorians of the High School classes and not as Affirmative action babies. My Cardiologist is also a young uberCatholic with a family whose main non-professional pastime is Eucharistic adoration and a damn good doctor too. A lot of my kidney dialysis is handled by a lovely Filipino nurse who came here from her homeland and spends her life (a single woman though she must have had numerous offers) caring for Americans, including the poor being treated on Medicare. Should I disrespect any of these Filipinos for caring for my health?
Our shortage of nurses is not as bad as our shortage of doctors, scientists, mathematicians, engineering yet but since self-esteem has replaced substantive academic work under Common Core, we will soon be short of everything but welfare recipients or are you an enthusiast for gummint skewels like PS 666?
I note that you are still honest enough NOT to claim that American students are eager for tough majors needed in our country and which pay very well indeed. Immigrants do stoop labor in our agricultural fields that Americans won't do. Increasingly, there are other immigrants working hard to qualify as doctors, engineers, mathematicians, scientists.
I am not just accusing others. More than fifty years ago when I entered college, I was intimidated by the hard sciences which held less interest for me than did my girlfriend and my friends. Drinking and drugs I avoided but snuggling with the girlfriend beat the heck out of studying advanced calculus. I had made the grave error of embarking on a math major. That lasted at least two weeks before I surrendered and turned first to accounting and then to history. My math professor was an elderly priest who designed mainframe computers for IBM as a hobby and turned the substantial payments over to the Jesuit order. The Jesuit University that I started at sent fully 98% of its pre-med students to Medical School.
Like many of my contemporaries and like many since, I found the hard sciences to be no fun and that pursuing them would be a definite crimp in my social life. I retrieved my higher education by being something of a star history major and an adequate law school student to graduate, pass the bar and practice for decades. Therefore, I cannot minimize my contacts with lazy Americans. I are one.
This is a cheap labor lobby lie. There is no STEM shortage. There's just corporate lobbying to drive down STEM wages. Most Americans with STEM degrees work outside their fields.