Donald Trump, zingers and all, emerges as sharp H-1B critic

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4. Re unemployment in IT

I believe that media coverage of H1B visas discourages natural born Americans from pursuing careers in IT.

Remember, we don't fund our colleges and universities--higher education is largely at the student's risk (via student loans). That is a departure from the norm of industrialized nations, as well as India and China.

So who the hell is going to risk 50-100k in student loans if they believe that some H1B is just going to come and take their job for half the pay? Especially if their family is unwilling and/or not wealthy enough to help out with college?

I know I was in this position when I graduated high school in 2003. I stayed away from computer programming, even though I had wanted to do it just a year earlier, because I feared outsourcing meant I wouldn't be able to find work in the field at a wage I could pay my student loans at even then. Yet corporations were screaming "shortage, shortage!" but I sure as hell don't see them lobbying for fully funding state universities to render student loans unnecessary (like they are in other industrialized nations). Sure, they'll lobby for better public schools, but not colleges.

Americans aren't on a level playing field, and some of that has to do with how our education is funded as well.