Here is something that I have known about for a while, but it seems few people actually believed. American companies want to hire foreign workers because they will work for much less than the going rate. In order to hire a foreign worker, a company must pretend to look for qualified Americans. Most jobs posted in newspapers and job sites are bogus and are only intended to prove that there are no qualified American workers.

This is most often true in the programming area and affect people like me, but it is true of almost all white collar jobs.

This video, a conference on how to avoid hiring an American, is chilling.