There is no shortage of STEM workers

Re:There is no shortage of STEM workers by troebr on Monday February 15, 2016 @06:33PM (#11106889)

At the same time, the US getting educated and skilled workers that it never had to pay a dime for to educate. If you look at European countries, a lot of them are trying hard to prevent their skilled workers from leaving for the US.

If anything, these people are coming, paying high taxes whilst receiving only a tiny fraction of the benefits (no medicare, no unemployment, no education cost) etc. They may or may not be driving salaries down (pretty sure if the law was enforced it wouldn't be the case), but you can't ignore the rest.

There's also a lot of statistics on immigrants and children of immigrants founding a disproportionate amount of companies compared to US natives.

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Re:There is no shortage of STEM workers by ap3 on Monday February 15, 2016 @11:59PM (#11107973)

There will still be immigrants without H1b - but H1b specifically targets tech employees with the fallacy that there are not enough tech workers

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Re:There is no shortage of STEM workers by pound on Tuesday February 16, 2016 @01:52PM (#11112186)

saving money on their education cost and getting taxes paid is fine, sure. in the same time you have a local citizen who is out of job. how much money will be spent on him/her (in)directly? from unemployment benefits at first to potential disability eventually, to cover expenses with healthcare or any other payments that would be defaulted.

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