Lately I’ve been hearing a lot about immigration and how immigrants are stealing American jobs, particularly high-tech ones.

Wired recently published an article about how Indian workers are replacing American workers at lower wages and other “the sky is falling” logic to make us panic. Phooey.

Check out this recent Business 2.0 article which includes the vital facts that the Wired article misses – the demand for high-tech workers is dramatically increasing while the number of college-educated Americans is holding steady while the baby boomers are retiring. Not even a continent of Indian tech workers will be able to fill the needs we’ll have for engineers in the coming years. We’ll have to offshore development of software simply because if we don’t, nothing will get done.

I’m sure this more practical article sells more to Business 2.0’s pointy-haired readers than Wired’s unemployed technogeek freaks.

Hmm, my hair was a bit unruly this morning.

Even with all the Indian workers “stealing” jobs, I’m having a lot of trouble finding a good engineer for one of my open positions.

It seems those are complaning are those who demand too much for too little skill. I don’t know a single good programmer out there today who can’t find a job.

But I dare you to prove me wrong by sending me your resume.