'Easy' may be a far stretch word for Job prospects in Engineering field, as far as US is concerned. What it comes down to is, whether you have a US education or not and whether you have atleast a permanent residency or not. There are many US born engineers who are finding hard time to get engineering related job, in such times it might be hard for a person, educated outside US, to get a job right away. Companies are looking for Green Card/ Citizenship as pool of prospects is ever increasing. This applies to Mechanical, Electrical and Civil. I am not sure about Industrial as a friend pointed above. Having said that, it is not as if it is impossible to find Engineering job in US. There are examples coming up everyday who got hired by a company or two. LIke any other jobs now-a-days, the odds are not in favor of the prospects.