Posted on 02/26/2013 12:07:44 PM PST by ExxonPatrolUs
It’s an iPad and smartphone world. Yet we’re stuck with an immigration system formed in the age of black-and-white TVs.
Whereas the success of yesterday’s Fortune 500 companies — like U.S. Steel and Amoco — once depended on resources, today’s Fortune 500 companies — like Google and eBay — depend on access to talent. Even so, there’s been no substantive reform of our immigration laws for nearly 50 years. It’s now more difficult than ever for foreign-born workers to come, contribute, and thrive in the United States.
For the time being, America remains the destination of choice in the global economy. But talented individuals can now also find very attractive opportunities in other countries around the world. China for example offers generous stipends, access to incubators, and other incentives to lure home top scientists and engineers.
Meanwhile, we train many of the world’s leading innovators in our universities — only to send them packing once they graduate. We’re sending them away to compete against us, even as we face a massive shortage of more than 230,000 advanced degree workers in the science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) fields.
It’s simple: The more skilled labor we have in America, the more innovation we have, the better our economy performs, and the more jobs we create for all Americans. Here are the facts:
Every 100 immigrants who earn advanced degrees in the U.S. and then stay to work in STEM fields create 262 jobs for American workers.
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Maybe we should stop dumbing down our kids. The public schools just keep getting worse and worse and worse.
And the universities have almost all gone around the bend as well. The main interest these days is brainwashing, not teaching people how to think.
Sorry John FeinBLATT... that definitely does not pass the giggle test.
Good! It should be GD near IMPOSSIBLE "for foreign-born workers to come, contribute, and thrive in the United States"! Non-existent border control screws low-wage workers, and rampant H1-B visa scams screw high-wage workers. With real unemployment, measured as the government measured it thirty years ago, well above 20 percent, there are plenty of Americans available for jobs in America.
Good IT story. American girl whose parents were from India grad with degree in software. She could not land an interview after hundreds of resumes. She even dropped her starting salary and still no interviews. Finally one of her friends told her to eliminate the info on her resume stating that she is born in the US and an American. She did that and ended up with scores of interviews because the prospective companies noticed her Indian last name and not finding anything on her citizen status assumed she was born in India. One company actually gave her a job offer after several interviews and became upset after they sent her a letter offering employment when she told them she was an American. BOTTOM LINE - high tech industries are greedy bastards who want foreign workers that can be locked into a multi-year contract with them and lower salaries.
More in the efforts to slowly exterminate American techs., but it won’t work. So far, they’ve moved our manufacturing base to the soils of foreign countries, forced breaking of technical families by numerous means in academia, social programs and judicial policies, had their associates and relatives make regulations against every kind of new, small manufacturing, attacked American fertility and much more. They have their fingers in every kind of leadership position. But they still won’t eradicate our country of technically inclined Americans.
Restrict immigration to foreigners (especially those already closer to our culture) who marry Americans or otherwise prove their desires to become Americans as we are. Global slavery is bad public affairs and policy. It’s even worse when accompanied with fearful reactions against us, including officious abolitions of our freedoms.
BINGO! It is also illegal to do so, but they reclassify the job so that it get a lower salary. I saw ALL of my Chinese, Russian and Indian students landing jobs 20K-30K BELOW where PhD Chemical Engineers should have started after finishing.
BINGO! It is also illegal to do so, but they reclassify the job so that it get a lower salary. I saw ALL of my Chinese, Russian and Indian students landing jobs 20K-30K BELOW where PhD Chemical Engineers should have started after finishing.
Well, that's nonsense.
From early 20s to 1965 immigration was extremely difficult.
There’s another factor. Why not go into STEM careers? Because of the fear of taking hard classes and going into debt and having your job outsourced overseas.
That is very telling. Gordon Gecko would be proud.
Maybe if we weren't swimming in illegals we might seriously consider increasing immigration is some professions.
But with DHS releasing detained, criminal illegals into the public, the only reform I favor is the arrest of Napolitano & the rest of the “open borders” crowd.
If our immigration being “broken” is the problem, then how did the iPad, smartphones, and apps, EVER get invented? We did and are doing fine, if the damn Leftists would stay out of the way.
Oh, so I’m sure if I wanted a job in China they would let me? I don’t think so.
China actually looks out for their own.
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