The New York Times Square Bomber was a H-1B Visa worker at one point. It seems he eventually experienced the American Dream, similar to many Americans today. He lost his job, his home and his money. That said, this points to the continual cheap labor import game and how cultural differences are completely ignored by corporate America and also security monitoring is pretty lax on student and guest worker Visas.

Shahzad worked from mid-2006 to May 2009 as a junior financial analyst for the Affinion Group, a marketing firm in Norwalk. Company spokesman Michael Bush said Shahzad held a lower-level position dealing with the company's budget and projected income and left on good terms.

Still, Shahzad defaulted on a $200,000 mortgage on his Shelton home, and the property is in foreclosure, court records show. Shahzad took out the mortgage on the property in 2004, and he co-owned the home with Mian.

The Wall Street Journal:

Mr. Shahzad initially lived in the U.S. under visas designed to facilitate his education and give him employment. In December 1998, he was granted an F-1 student visa. Immigration officials noted then that there was "no derogatory information" on Mr. Shahzad in any database, a law enforcement official said.
He first attended Southeastern University in Washington, D.C., a small school that lost its accreditation last year. In 2000, Mr. Shahzad transferred to the University of Bridgeport.
In April 2002, he was granted an H1-B visa for skilled workers; he stayed in the U.S. for three years on that visa, gaining his M.B.A. It is not clear what company sponsored the visa, which is used to attract workers with a "specialty occupation," such as information technology.

Documents found by the press:

The Post's find included an old passport from Pakistan, an academic transcript from Southeastern University listing a grade point average of 2.78 and tax returns showing Shahzad earned $22,650 income as an account analyst in 2001.

GPA of 2.8 and this is the best and the brightest we hear so much about that must get a H-1B Visa? Thank God for incompetence, although one must wonder how this guy got a Computer and Electrical Engineering Bachelors in the first place. Supposedly his H-1B Visa sponsor was Elizabeth Arden, cosmetics, and for accounting to work in a temp agency. In other words, our classic H-1B body shop. Sure, there is a shortage of bad GPA accountants in the U.S. who clearly don't have the skills normally implied by a Computer Engineering degree.

In 2003, a laid off by Intel corporation engineer, also originally on a Visa, then an U.S. citizen, also degenerated into terrorism and violence.

What's the answer here? I have no idea, these issues of national security, violence & criminality are way beyond my expertise. I'm just another geek. Yet, experiencing the new American Dream of losing everything assuredly isn't helping.