For what it's worth, right now you do have your pick of jobs in the US to some degree; opportunities are wide open. In five years, the world may be a different place.
In my experience, while working overseas, you don't exist to anyone in the US. That is, send all the resumes you want, and they won't get a fraction of the attention given to someone who is actually living in the US at the time. It takes breaking free of the sandpit and returning stateside to convince the hiring free world that you still breathe.