Posted on 03/31/2006 6:25:17 AM PST by adorno
The story is nothing but pro-immigration propaganda. For every immigrant who is successful there are dozens of Americans that are just as or more successful. This story comes from MSNBC a liberal MSM organ that constantly attempts to brainwash the American public to believe in the left wing liberal agenda.The news bureau of NBC the parent company is loaded with journalists who are 80% liberal. Need I say more.
No problem - just as long as American companies who employ them pay them the same salary as Americans, and that those companies then don't get to lay off equivalent workers over age 40.
I've seen a lot of that.
"Ahhhh...do you want a slurpee?"
is as infamous as
"Tu tienes fries con su hamburgeuse?"
Because the US is on the cutting edge of technology and offers the best enviroment for entrepreneurs. Certainly, their home countries would be better off if they stayed home, but that would hurt the US.
The US has been the world's biggest beneticiary of the "brain drain." Our graduate schools in the hard sciences are dominated by foreigners. We need skilled, edcuated people, which is why we are constantly increasing the H1B visa levels. Our primary and secondary education systems are not giving us the people we need to run our ecomony.
I would much rather see us have a controlled immigration program that gives us the kinds of people we need to compete in the global economy. The current flood of ill-educated, unskilled Mexicans streaming across our borders in unprecedented numbers is exactly what we don't need.
Mething that some of their complaints are retitless and more than likely are just looking for excuses for staying in the U.S.
These are the kinds of people we should find excuses to keep them staying here.
"H1-B visas are supposed to be temporary. I don't see the problem."
That's weird. I know H1b's that have been here for years. They were brought in to replace older American techs that were laid off in a "right-sizing".
I know Paks open up motels and Indians open up 7-11's. So is that why motels never have 7-11's next door?........
In California's Silicon Valley, the superstars of the high-tech industry are all immigrants
Do you think this statement is true?
why don't they just run across the Mexican border?
A sizable chunk of the science and engineering doctorates went to non-U.S. citizens, according to the NSF. Of 23,152 doctorates awarded to students whose citizenship was known, 8,839 went to non-U.S. citizens. In engineering alone, foreign-born persons receiving doctoral degrees last year represented more than 60 percent of the total, according to the NSF. Between 1993 and 2002, foreign citizens earned just more than 57 percent of all engineering doctorates, the NSF said.
While I realize your comment is meant to be sarcasm, these great ideas and new companies were started by LEGAL immigrants.
The ongoing Indian Pakistan conflict has it's roots in New York believe it or not - it all started when a cabbie smashed his cab into a 7-11.
Give the Mexicans another generation or two here and things will improve. Same thing happened with the Cubans in So. Fla. They made Miami what it is today.
Because America has the investors to fund these companies, the talent to make these companies, and the businesses to sell these companies services to. You've got a better chance of your startup company making you rich in America than in India.
Why do we even have an H1B visa program when kids getting out of college today with computer science degrees can't find jobs. Yet Bush says we need more graduates with science and tech degrees. Is he out of touch. A little, you think. I also know many of my friends in the computer and tech fields who lost their jobs and could not find similar work and then had to leave the field.Its ridiculous!
If it's true that our graduate schools in the hard sciences are dominated by foreigners, then that's at best a shame, at worst a danger. Where will their loyalties lie? How many leaders in history were educated in one country, only to return to their homeland and become adversaries of the country which gave them their education? Maybe we should concentrate on educating our children and encouraging them to aim for excellence in science and technology and stop relying on foreigners to fill in the gaps.
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