Deep trouble ahead.(Letter to the Editor)

After reading the subject article with high interest, it became more and more apparent to me that the U.S. is in DEEP trouble, just like an ostrich with its head buried in the sand. Here is the situation:

* The number of students in higher education in the engineering fields (applied and theoretical) are at unsustainably low levels--so much so that thousand of H1-B visas are required every year to fulfill employers' requirements.

* Engineers in the U.S. still believe that these foreign workers are stealing their jobs, when the problem is that competent engineers are hard ...