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Posted on 12/16/2009 6:46:07 AM PST by danielmryan
With unemployment at 10% and prospects for finding work bleak, foreign-born professionals who came to the United States in search of better job opportunities and prosperity are now retreating.
Foreign-based companies, particularly in Asia, are using the employment picture in the U.S. as a means to lure former residents home. This comes as a welcome respite for professionals who've experienced layoffs, underemployment and visa issues.
Vivek Wadhwa, a senior research associate at Harvard Law School who has studied these trends, says frustrations about the lack of advancement in the U.S., where salary and promotion freezes have become the norm, are a significant factor in foreign-born professionals' heading home.
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Of course, this leaves open the question of what they'll do should things get better. But those questions don't impinge on this week's news cycle...
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“foreign-born professionals” are not the problem. It is the hoards of uneducated, unskilled immigrants, legal and illegal, who are destroying this country.
Naw. The corporate-government bosses are sending them into the trailer parks and other cheap places along with the corporate-government bosses’ ex-boyfriends with AIDs, ex-favorite drug dealers, and the like.
The article has nothing to do with amnesty for illegals. The article is talking about highly skilled employees from Europe, Asia and India that are going back.
More and more I’m hearing from foreign-born professionals the line, “I came to America to get away from this”, referring to Obama’s flavor of government. Most recently it was a Soviet-era dentist who is now my dentist’s hygienist. She is furious that people voted Obama in when she could clearly recognize the Marxist rhetoric he was spewing.
They can go back to where they came from and make much less than they are making in the US. How much are they going to make in China or in India compare to what they are making here? No more than 20% of their US salaries.
No, it’s the people that are placing them in positions to destroy the country or at least have someone to blame for their dumber than dumb actions.
You need to go after those people. Like Pelosi. If ever someone needed to really be jailed it’s her.
Good point. I was trying to get a reading on the spin cycle.
Here's one to watch for: a story that claim that illegals are packing up and going home too.
The man is/was a naturalized US citizen, but when this brick was figuratively thrown at his face, he decided he wasn't going to have the government controlling how he raised his kids. I commend him.
Did the man question his own parenting skills at all? Sure, the culture has a huge impact on how kids behave, but so does parenting.
From what I’ve seen and was was told, he’s a good person and father.
It was the threat that his kids were being told to call the police on their parents for what - not buying the newest Wii game and calling that abuse - that made the man leave the country. I don’t blame him in the least.
Highly skilled foreign workers going home is not a good sign of things to come. This happened to Britain in the 1970s when many highly trained professionals such as physicians, financial industry workers, entrepreneurs left for greener pastures in Canada, Australia and the US in what was called the brain drain. Highly skilled workers are always a net positive for a country economically as they contribute to the tax base, spend money and produce wealth. They also will generally produce better educated and more successful children.
Of course, the Dims only want needy, unintelligent immigrants that will become reliable little Marxists voters to maintain the one party welfare state. 0bama wants a permanent Dim oligarchy with a command economy running a third world banana republic.
The next shoe to drop could be when highly trained US workers leave the US for better political and economic conditions.
Though there are articles that illegals are either packing up and going home or that people from Guatemala etc. are sending money to their relatives states-side. This isn’t good — it shows that our country is no longer the dream for most people as it was for over a century or two. Under the Obaminator, we’re rapidly becoming the land of the un-free. Check out his new attempts atgun bans...
It could be because he let the idiot box in the house. Unless tv viewing is monitored, I believe that it is a leading cause of delinquency.
you’re right — and when the highly skilled workers left Britain, it was crippled for nearly a decade and a half
Could be. All I know is the guy took action when the son came home and made that comment. And I don’t blame him in the least.
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