Prescription

* tax breaks should be created/increased for costs to interview US citizens for jobs

* tax breaks should be created/increased for costs to relocate US citizen employees within the USA

* tax breaks should be created/increased for investment in education and/or training of US citizen employees (and maybe even a break for donations to scholarships)

* end visa waiver programs

* count only US citizens for purposes of determininig numbers and districts of US representatives

* fence all 8,600 miles of border, first quickly with 8 foot high chain-link fence and vehicle barriers, then with more substantial fencing/walls

* patrol the borders with at least 30K fully-armed troops

* run proper background investigations on every visa applicant (and charge full reasonable costs)

* set in place means to track visa-holders from entry to exit, with quarterly reports of estimates of average daily presence by visa type

* moratorium on F, H-1B, H-2B, H-1C, J, L visas for 6 months, 12 months, 5 years, 20 years, whatever we can get.

* significantly cut visa program levels (80%-99%; e.g. set the aggregate hard limit of E-3 plus H-1B plus L visas to 2K per year and eliminate all "exemptions"; set the aggregate limit of J visas to 2K per year; set the aggregate limit of F visas to 5K per year; set the aggregate of H-2B visas to 1K per year, and so on)

* auction off such visas monthly to the highest bidders (above the costs for paper-work handling, background investigations, etc.)

* if you want to have a visa for "the best and brightest" then there'd better be some reasonable criteria by which to determine whether an applicant is "best" or "brightest";
  + a score of over 160 on a Wechsler IQ test,
  + aggregate ACT score above 34 (31 if you took the test before 1970),
  + aggregate (2-part) SAT score above 1550 or aggregate "new" (3-part) SAT score above 2200,
  + aggregate GRE above 1615,
  + PCAT in 99th percentile,
  + cumulative MCAT above 35,
  + LSAT of 175 or higher, or equivalent,
  + or a dozen significant US patents or a Nobel prize in physical/biological science plus a doctor's degree would make an appropriate floor

* put some teeth into US recruiting requirements and apply them to all work visa sponsors, not just those who hire 15% of their total work-force via such visas, and not just those who pay slightly below the average pay for competent US STEM workers (i.e. eliminate the $60K salary exemption, and the college/university exemption and the research center exemption)

* eliminate quangos like Freddie Mac, Fannie Mae, Sallie Mae

* cut non-military federal compensation by 20%, but cut total compensation for congress-critters by 30% and cut total compensation for federal judges by 25%

* eliminate the Socialist Insecurity Abomination

* eliminate Medicare and Medicaid

* eliminate the federal loan program for hospital construction/expansion, and its "must treat" strings along with it

* phase out the Pension Guaranty fund/admin and return to oversight aimed at fraud prevention

* eliminate federal income extortion, or go to a flat tax such that local+state+federal rates are less than 10%

* eliminate the Federal Reserve and return to sound, full-bodied precious metal coinage

There was no shortage of gifted, knowledgeable, industrious US citizen STEM workers.

There is no shortage of talented US citizen STEM workers.

No credible evidence of impending shortage of gifted, knowledgeable, industrious US citizen STEM workers has been produced.