I worked for a few amazing high-tech companies, and knew and still know much about the subject. I feel terrible for every US worker displaced in the claim we don't have the skills here, especially for minority US citizens who don't have a fair chance because of the current practices. And, I can't help but make the connection of this practice to the oppression our youth feel. So, when someone advocates against this, they have my ear and support. 
As for our research universities I too paid tuition in the range you paid, and could afford it myself holding down a full time job, etc. No longer possible. But, I also know a number of professors and see the gap between rich and poor expanding. They are chief among the causes for this expanding gap, no one individually, but the system as a whole. Buoyed by a strange perception that FAFSA pays for it, and will be forgiven at some point. I've worked with couples in financial trouble, and am appalled at how much that trouble is today due to this.