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Whole heartedly agree with the sentiments being spoken here. As a high paid IT Management professional myself having been in the field now for 15 years I can tell you there isn’t a shortage of American IT professionals to fill the positions. Republicans are no different than demonrats and Cruz is now showing his true colors. What’s happened is because there are a flood of H1B visas it’s lowered the salaries of highly skilled LEGAL professionals. Greed ridden US companies are forcing through shortages because they refuse to pay the rates demanded by those such as myself what the market should bear. So what do they do? They lobby Congress to increase visas to fill their shortages vs paying a US employee what the market should bear. This tripe spoken by Cruz today sickens me he is in the same bed as the rest. Until now I was a firm Cruz supporter.....next...

So our immigration problem is based on legal immigrants?

I’ve heard stupid before, but words fail me on this one.

Whole heartedly agree with the sentiments being spoken here. As a high paid IT Management professional myself having been in the field now for 15 years I can tell you there isn’t a shortage of American IT professionals to fill the positions. Republicans are no different than demonrats and Cruz is now showing his true colors. What’s happened is because there are a flood of H1B visas it’s lowered the salaries of highly skilled LEGAL professionals. Greed ridden US companies are forcing through shortages because they refuse to pay the rates demanded by those such as myself what the market should bear. So what do they do? They lobby Congress to increase visas to fill their shortages vs paying a US employee what the market should bear. This tripe spoken by Cruz today sickens me he is in the same bed as the rest. Until now I was a firm Cruz supporter.....next...

Onyx, apparently, Legal Immigration is now much, much, MUCH more important than the fight against Illegal Immigration, which Senator Cruz has been one of the only ones to fight against. How in the world someone could express the views on this thread, like Jarhead9297 has, that this one action on his and completely soured him, is beyond me.

I wonder which potential candidate he now supports?

He won't find anyone more conservative, in fact, all he will find are those who are much much less conservative.

Something smells here.

A Cisco CCIE+ friend of mine makes over 150 grand. Having watched him get his certification and the volumes of technical data he had to learn, and the systems he has to put together, and the hours he has to be available, there’s no doubt in my mind that he earns every penny, and that he’s in the top 1% of Americans on the ability scale.

Greed ridden US companies are forcing through shortages because they refuse to pay the rates demanded by those such as myself what the market should bear.

It comes down to this - they are no longer going to even consider paying you $100K/year to do a job they consider on a par with janitorial services - necessary but not part of the core business.

They might pay an Indian $35K to do it if they can get him over here.

Otherwise, they will simply offshore the work for $10K/year and put up with the communication problems.