KLOBUCHAR VOTES yes on Obamacare, without reading the bill, now she says best to get rid of the 3% medical device tax [which was in the bill]. This results in local companies like St Jude Medical laying off workers ....now she says lets get more workers from abroad since workers here don't know how to do computer work.

She gets big contributions from Target, Cargill, and Wells Fargo who benefit greatly from cheap foreign employees. Meanwhile many of us equally trained and talented still can find jobs. She is a traitor to us all and deserves to be shoe-ed.

Of all the immigration questions, I thought this was the easiest. I thought Democrats were for immigration. Why are all their constituencies up in arms? Why in the world would we train folks from other countries and then not let them stay to contribute? Filling these roles creates more jobs, not less in America.

H1-B is a self fulfilling prophecy that public companies created for themselves. When I started in IT 18 years ago it was pretty common to see all sorts of interns. Programmers, Infrastructure, you name it. I haven't worked at a client in 8 years that has had interns. Employers complain they can't find skilled workers. Well, that's a problem they created when they stopped training them. They complain US IT employees cost too much. They do. But they created that situation by not investing in the next generation workforce. These are self inflicted wounds. I don't actually have a beef with increasing H1B limits, but it should be contingent on training and internships for US college grads.

Dumbing down the education system is finally coming to roost. We are not leaders anymore, becoming a third world country by our own government. Just read that Cal. will not be teaching algebra to 8th graders. DUH?

In a bit of candor, a CEO recently stated that they want more H1B visas to put downward pressure on wages of highly-skilled workers. The CEOs of companies who rely on high-skilled workers want to be able to cut labor costs so they can easily meet performance goals and the easy way to do that is to have more H1B visas granted.

Plenty of unemployed Americans with the skills to do these jobs but Klobuchar want to flood the US labor market even more to reduce wages and benefits for STEM workers. Befoe letting anymore in how about rounding u and deporting those that have overstayed their expired visas?

Great - let's see what this lady is made of.

I do wonder if graduate school looked more appealing to domestic college students--if there were more options after the PhD presented, then maybe more American students would pursue these STEM post-bac degrees. Historically, grad students have been worked hard for a meager wage and anyone who trained in the 80s/90s probably had many foreign grad student friends. I think the grad schools like the foreign students better because they are virtually guaranteed long working hour laborers. They are effectively indentured servants dependent on their host university for their F1 visa status. For many of the foreign students life in the lab is luxurious compared to their digs in China or India, for instance. The brain drain is partly due to the academy not realizing that not every grad student could land an academic job. Long hours in the lab do not necessarily prepare grad students for much else than long hours in the lab. The focus should be on re-filling the ranks of industry and academia with American students, preparing them for these jobs, and only secondarily providing the H1Bs to a small subset of non-citizens who are well qualified, as a stop-gap manuever.

Is there any sector of the soft job market that the lobbyists don't want to flood with cheap labor? Call