[stewie2]

My team has 4 job openings. The only two candidates who could pass our phone screen are not U.S. citizens. One is from Russia, who didn't get the visa for on-site interview.

America seems to be very harsh to legal immigrants, but pretty nice to illegal immigrants.

I think it's good for a country to import some competition. After all, h1b has a 60000 cap each year, that's not too many people.

[anxrn]

Agreed. In the process of sponsoring green cards for prospective candidates, we go through the process of trying to find US citizens that could fill the role. This is a requirement of the labor certification process. We rarely, if ever, find _any_ US citizen that applies for these positions. Most applicants are immigrants, which makes us reject them (since the exercise is to really see if we can find citizens). These are not low-paying grunt jobs. These are highly-specialized, very well paid positions.

[armored_mammal]

Maybe you should focus on finding smart people (if you actually pay decently and are located somewhere somebody in their right mind would want to live) and then consider training them in your 'high-specialized' whatever you need.