> I'm apologetically opposed to foreign workers. The US has PLENTY of tech workers, ranging from help desk to the nerdiest graph theory scientists. This is noth

> I'm apologetically opposed to foreign workers. The US has PLENTY of tech workers, ranging from help desk to the nerdiest graph theory scientists. This is nothing more than companies getting cheaper labor. Full stop. I find all the excuses just that. If the world was that easy... let's see, please find the flaw in the following: - I'm apologetically opposed to universities creating more CS classes. The US has PLENTY of tech workers, ranging from help desk to the nerdiest graph theory scientists. This is nothing more than companies getting cheaper labor. Full stop. I find all the excuses just that. - I'm apologetically opposed to hiring remote workers. <insert current location> has PLENTY of tech workers, ranging from help desk to the nerdiest graph theory scientists. This is nothing more than companies getting cheaper labor. Full stop. I find all the excuses just that. - I'm apologetically opposed to replacing local IT services with cloud. The US has PLENTY of tech workers, ranging from help desk to the nerdiest graph theory scientists. This is nothing more than companies getting cheaper labor. Full stop. I find all the excuses just that. The issue is complex. Yes, there's likely lots of companies for which one of the main short term reasons to hire foreign talent is to reduce employment costs for the local employers they would replace. But companies and economies aren't zero-sum systems. Hiring bright (and cheap) talent means you can do more things cheaper which would allow your company (and economy to grow), which allows hiring more and producing more (or extending provided services). My opinion is that the main reason IT payscale has suffered was that the services they provided can be easily replaced with cheaper alternatives (immigrant workers, remote workers, cloud services). People that manage to get to the US have already undergone a very strong selection (even if the H1B process through which they were brought was abused), they are some of the best people their country has to offer which means the country that gains them has an advantage over the one that loses them.