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Granny 4 points ago +4 / -0

"And those people are thrown out of the country — we can’t do that,” he [President Trump] said, referring to foreign graduates of U.S. colleges.

Mr President, this doesn't sit well when our own college graduates can't make enough money to pay for their student loans. I think we need to tighten the college graduate labor market more, until these young Americans can afford to pay their debts!

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TheHolyMonk 2 points ago +2 / -0

I think that sounds worse than it is. If you visit any US university, you won't find many Americans studying computer science or engineering. It doesn't make sense to educate people and then just let them leave. We bitch about H1-B visas, but there are a lot of fields that Americans just aren't studying. Everyone wants the easy way out. I can train anyone with reasonable intelligence to make 100k a year within 5 years in IT by becoming a Sys Admin, DBA or Developer and have offered to do so to family friends, etc. but no one wants to do it. It is mind boggling.

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Granny 1 point ago +1 / -0

That's true but even our comp sci majors are complaining that they can't make enough money to pay their student loans because foreign workers are taking the jobs for much less compensation.

We hear it constantly, they are training foreign workers to do their jobs, then they get fired!