[icebraining]

Removing a specific job from the market is not necessarily hurting local labor; that depends on the overall effects of immigration. Take a person who comes here on a visa, manages to stay and starts a company which employs other engineers - is s/he hurting the local labor market? What about the person who simply is a great worker and allows the company to grow and hire faster?

In any case, software engineers complaining about having less jobs just strikes me as hypocritical. Our whole professions are essentially centered about eliminating the need for human labor. At least in this case, someone is still getting paid to do the job, even if it's not someone who happened to be born with the right citizenship.