Reply #49: I worry about guest workers [View All]

[glasalle]

I pretty much agree with what you say about the current situation, and I think about going back into health care sometime, but
employers are already using guest workers in health care and teaching. At some point, we will have enough US workers, but the hospitals and other employers will be still be claiming shortages,as they are in tech fields. This will end up depressing wages and causing unemployment, since the supply will fill or exceed the demand, at which point American workers will stop going into the field.
I also believe that these guest workers are being paid less that American(citizens and green card holders)workers since there is little or no enforcement to ensure that employers pay prevailing wages. We see this in the tech field with H1-b visas. And regarding education, I recently read about Las Vegas bringing in Filipino teachers. One was a principal with a PH.D. and the other was a math teacher with ten years experience. I think neither was being paid much more than $20k and they were happy to be here.