There has been a long and contentious struggle to make sure that Corporations in America do not game immigration policy by filling jobs for skilled workers with immigrants at lower wages. Besides making continued legal residence in the US dependent on a particular job (like indentured servitude) this practice skews the balance in favor of the biggest companies with the most creative lies from the Human Resources department. Yet another republican ploy to extend this in the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) fields was just published by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
According to AAAS:
STEM Immigration Bill to be Introduced. Rep. Raul Labrador (R-ID) is expected to introduce an immigration bill that focuses on attracting and retaining foreign-national graduates in STEM fields. The bill proposes to ease the green card backlog for STEM students transitioning to a job in the United States and would assess a fee to employers of foreign-national STEM graduates of $2,000 for each such new employee, which would go toward a STEM scholarship fund for U.S. citizens to be managed by NSF.
In other words for every job going to a non-citizen there will be $2,000 available for some undefined scholarship program. With the average
in-state tuition for state universities running $7600, this means 15 foreign trained employees per one bachelors degree, tuition only, scholarship. So if you are out of work and looking for a job in a STEM field be sure to set your asking wage like a single post-grad from India, Brazil, or other country unable to absorb their graduates much like we are unable to as well.