[nathanbedford]

Cruz basis his support for H1B visas upon two facts which he alleges: 1) there are thousands of STEM jobs going unfilled for want of qualified employees; 2) H1B visas bring in technically skilled people with great talent and entrepreneurial drive who create jobs for Americans.

Does anybody have data on these assertions?

[ConservativeMind]

From Ted Cruz's website:

“According to the Joint Economic Committee, between 2010 and 2020, demand for STEM graduates is expected to grow by 17 percent, while employment for those graduates will increase only 14 percent, partly because American graduates are not available or qualified to fill these jobs.”

http://www.cruz.senate.gov/?p=press_release&id=137

He leaves out that STEM graduates are not getting employed because H1-Bs are quite a bit cheaper.

Convenient, huh?

From Red State, the Chamber is stating ultimatums on the need to increase H1-B visas:

http://www.redstate.com/2014/05/21/chamber-commerce-obama-agree-cheap-foreign-labor-great-idea/

[ConservativeMind]

Some additional information on the excess of US-born STEM graduates (this might be what Trump pointed to today in his immigration paper):

http://cis.org/more-us-stem-grads-than-jobs

[Isara]

Plase check post #33 and 50.