"finding qualified workers" 
I'm old enough to know in years past you hired the person, not the qualification.
This, because the company would train the employee for the job.
Then along comes a loss of faith in our own citizens, led by the monster companies, who place paper "qualifications" above the person even to the degree they trust foreign paper over our own. The rise of "on-paper" knowledge.
Used to be they got great engineers for cheap, for instance, at the fall of the Soviet Union and the release of the communist puppet countries.
Now, they prefer others as "more qualified", effectively discriminating against our own by age, by color, by gender and by appearance on a computer screen. 
And now, suggestions of hiring within our borders is even thought as bigotry against other countries.
We're really a screwed up mess because of these things. No wonder so many nasty things are on the rise, since our own have no other country to go to.