Congress to Blame for Engineers’ Woes

We have Congress to thank for high unemployment in the engineering profession [“Slim Job Market Shocks Engineers,” Aug. 20].

Congress passed a law allowing 200,000 foreign engineers (and their families) to immigrate to the U.S. each year. The majority of these will settle on the West Coast.

This bill was passed under pressure from the dot-com industry to import foreign engineers willing to work for lower wages than American engineers, thus contributing to the unemployment situation we now find ourselves in.

Ron Hart

Palmdale