unemployed engineers and visas STEM students

[http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert (Robert)]

I am a software engineer and I know a number of unemployed engineers, many
of them computer programmers, software engineers, IT managers, and system
administrators.  After hearing about the proposed expansion of the green
card visa program to include 40,000 non-citizen graduates with STEM-based
degrees, I was surprised and dismayed.  With a continued sagging and
sluggish economy, I think now is the wrong time to inject many more people
into the job market.  In the late 1990s, jobs at all levels were easier to
obtain, including in STEM fields.  If we were to reach those
across-the-board low unemployment rates again, that would probably be the
right time to expand the green card program.  Expanding it in the present
moment would not be right.