glad to hear such a tone, however potentially politically incorrect, that this is at least somewhat nonsense. I too have 7 years of security experience (not so much, but not so bad either) and while I've had a few bites (2), I've hardly had folks banging down my door from an industry supposedly fraught with a shortage of qualified skilled professionals--ostensibly so fraught as to require the importation of foreign nationals. Nonsense. If I cannot find a job, and if I do say so myself, I am plenty qualified, there's hardly a need to import ANY foreign 'skill' until every American citizen with said skills has employment. I really don't feel the industry will suffer by having shortages that prevent them from doing their work when there are folks like me, and a previous poster, seeking employment.

Lastly, there's another slant that hasn't been addressed: While accusations of xenophobia, nationalism, or what have you will and are being leveled, ostensibly one of the most liberal and diverse European populations forbids the same sort of importation of workers, namely Switzerland (I'm Swiss born, but American for 25 years now). When I visited my folks a few months back, I saw dozens of jobs for sysadmins, 'NT specialists,' security practitioners, etc. And such a diverse, multilingual country as CH doesn't even HAVE an equivalent to the Green Card, nor is immigration/naturalization nearly as easy--it simply makes economic and legislative sense to make sure your citizens are employed, if employable, which is hardly the case here.

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