Foreign workers are sometimes blamed for taking jobs from Americans by accepting lower wages. Data from the National Science Foundation shows that average foreign-born scientists and engineers earn more, not less, than U.S. born counterparts. Because these professionals are fluent in two or more languages, they help U.S. companies break into new markets and compete on a global basis, and so they are paid more. In any case, according to these critics, U.S. workers should be retrained to take over these jobs before any more foreign workers are allowed in. They dare not agree that there is an immediate shortage, for that would mean that foreign workers ought to enter to work.
Critics have no data based in logic to support their arguments.
Harris Miller, President of the ITAA states, they re jumping off the pier and into the water because critics cannot substantiate their position. Between fixing the nationwide Year 2000 problem and meeting new demands, American high-tech workers are in hot demand at any age. Christopher Lancashire, President and CEO of CompuTec, an international human resource organization says that business has tripled in the past nine months because employers are so desperate. Rather than taking jobs from Americans, H-1B workers actually create more jobs by developing products that require marketing, sales and administrative support. Intel founder Andy Grove is a prime example of this.