&gt; We&#x27;re normal people who are being massively screwed by rhetoric in the US.<p>Yup. Same goes for normal people who move the other way.  The anti-foreign(er) consensus in the US political system&#x2F;debate is almost as bad as the &quot;tough on crime&quot; madness.<p>And of course that&#x27;s reflected in what people think.  I remember being in a discussion after an interesting EE380 session (so not exactly bottom of the pile) and one of the guys started ranting about the evils of H1Bs driving down wages.  I mentioned I was on an H1B and that what he said was illegal.  He asked me how much I made, I asked him to guess.  He mentioned a number.  I said &quot;multiply by at least 3&quot;.  He kind of shut up after that...