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A great concern of mine is that this is just an end run around the H1-B visa program. While most of the discussion seems centered around Mexican migrants doing unskilled/manual labor, everything Ive read seems to indicate this would also allow companies to import unlimited amounts of foreign engineers, IT workers,etc. The net effect would be to totally destroy our domestic engineering capacity.

I'm graduating next year with an Information Systems degree. If this goes into effect am I going to be competing with a limitless supply of Indian IT workers willing to work for peanuts?

The good thing from my point is that I'm still young, and I'm not married. I'm probably going to some sort of graduate school, but trying to a find a 'safe' field to go into and still earn a decent living looks increasingly hard.

Well Moby Dick was a Minnow when I graduated from HS and went to sea!! I have a BS in CompSci & Industrial Mgt. Worked at it for 2 years and they never let the door hit me where the good lord split me! The gray hair and well it was all it took. Of course they would never admit that.

The best indicator of the status of a nation is the rise or fall of it's middle class. Illegal immigration is not going to do anything to prosper the middle class. The upper class will reap the benefits of this "cheap labor" but there will be little of the profit passed on to the consumer. We need to make the President and Congress know that we are well aware of what is at stake here!!!