Lew Wheeler, CEO of a Pittsburg IT consulting firm, plans to hire 700 foreign-born workers this year to cope with the IT labor shortage. Whether that's a good thing or a bad thing depends on whether you're an employer, a U.S. programmer feeling threatened or an overseas software engineer who sees America as the land of opportunity. Twice as many H-1B workers are entering the U.S. as two years ago, primarily taking technology jobs.
Nobody really knows.
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