Posted on 02/15/2014 2:28:46 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
In a global economy, investment follows talent. When we draw top talent to our shores, investment dollars follow because companies want to be near the best workers.
An infusion of capital and economic development will be a tide that lifts all boats, creating jobs and opportunity for all Americans.
But the reverse is also true. If companies can't find talent on U.S. soil, or if it becomes too costly and burdensome, they will move their operations elsewhere. It's in our own best interests to welcome the world's brightest minds and hardest workers into our economy.
Immigrants can help bridge a growing skills gap in science, technology, engineering and math - the so-called STEM fields that are vital to a modern, competitive economy.
More than half of the master's and doctoral students studying the natural sciences and engineering disciplines at U.S. colleges and universities are from foreign countries.
Meanwhile, the number of American students studying STEM disciplines is growing at less than 1 percent per year. By 2018, there will be 230,000 unfilled positions requiring advanced STEM degrees, even if every U.S. STEM grad finds a job.
Many of our fastest-growing industries require advanced skills and higher education beyond a bachelor's degree - 22 percent of new job openings through 2020 will require at least a master's degree.
Among all 25- to 34-year-olds living in the United States, 10.6 percent of those with masters, professional or doctoral degrees are foreign born, compared with 8.5 percent of native-born young people....
(Excerpt) Read more at fresnobee.com ...
there are literally MILLIONS of talented, qualified American citizens who are available right now, right here... to “fuel a booming economy” .....
we won’t have anything like that, however, until at least after 2016, for obvious reasons...
(then we’ll see what we get...)
Yea, if their LEGAL!!
“””A steady flow of talented, industrious immigrants can fuel a booming economy”””
Study: 70% of Texas’ illegal immigrant families receive welfare
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Lies and deceit
According to the CoC one immigrant will create six American jobs, guess Juan the Gardner will create six high paying jobs once we give him amnesty. ARE WE SIX YEARS OLD. THESE BIG GOV BIG BUSINESS TYPES REALLY MAKE MY BLOOD BOIL. I HOPE OWS STORMS THEIR HOMES WITH TORCH AND HOODS.
What part of the country do you live in? Live where everyone is foreign born and the deterioration of the health care system, education and business slaps you in the face. Language issues, cultural issues and and ethic of saying something true or not with a straight face.
Americans not willing to work? Think that urban legend passed around by the slave traders.
Studying STEM in college giving up you social life in you prime, and expecting decent compensation upon graduation is just to much of a burden on society.
H1B is gloBULLism at it's worst.
We have Americans now with multiple graduate and professional degrees and licenses...and excellent work histories...unemployed without even opportunities for interviews, more or less meaningful employment.
I am not against immigrants but now with the Obama Great Depression is definitely NOT the time we need more immigrants “to fuel our booming economy”.... if more workers should ever be needed, they are right here right now, ...ready, willing, and able to do the job and do it well.
just saying, this article is krap
Some men just want to watch the economy go “BOOM!”.
Whatever the CoC is for I am against.
You are missing the point. The CofC wants to INCREASE LEGAL IMMIGRATION ALMOST THREEFOLD to from 12 million a decade to 33 million in the next ten years and double the guest worker programs from 700,000 a year to 1.4 million a year.
The Chamber worked with SEIU to craft what is in the Senate's gang of 8 amnesty bill. There are 45 million foreign born in the US today or one in 8 residents of this country, the highest it has been in 90 years.
Short version: “In our view, too few Americans are capable of acquiring technical skill, and too few are industrious. Therefore, we need to import the intelligent and industrious.”
Poverty
In 2010, 23 percent of immigrants and their U.S.-born children (under 18) lived in poverty, compared to 13.5 percent of natives and their children. Immigrants and their children accounted for one-fourth of all persons in poverty.
The children of immigrants account for one-third of all children in poverty.
Among the top sending countries, poverty is highest for immigrants and their young children from Mexico (35 percent), Honduras (34 percent), and Guatemala (31 percent); and lowest for those from Germany (7 percent), India (6 percent), and the Philippines (6 percent).
Welfare Use
In 2010, 36 percent of immigrant-headed households used at least one major welfare program (primarily food assistance and Medicaid) compared to 23 percent of native households.
Among the top sending countries, welfare use is highest for households headed by immigrants from Mexico (57 percent), Guatemala (55 percent), and the Dominican Republic (54 percent); and lowest for those from Canada (13 percent), Germany (10 percent), and the United Kingdom (6 percent).
Health Insurance Coverage
In 2010, 29 percent of immigrants and their U.S.-born children (under 18) lacked health insurance, compared to 13.8 percent of natives and their children.
New immigrants and their U.S.-born children account for two-thirds of the increase in the uninsured since 2000.
Among the top sending countries, the highest rates of uninsurance are for those from Guatemala (46 percent), Honduras (44 percent), El Salvador (44 percent), and Mexico (41 percent); and lowest for those from Canada (9 percent), Japan (8 percent), and Germany (5 percent).
Public Schools
There are 10.4 million students from immigrant households in public schools, accounting for one in five public school students. Of these students, 78 percent speak a language other than English at home.
Overall, one in four public school students now speaks a language other than English at home.
And 85% of us were born here. We are not a nation of immigrants. For those who think we are, then what nation is not a nation of immigrants? Ever since man left the Great Rift Valley in Africa man has migrated around the globe including across the Siberian land bridge 20,000 years ago into North, Central, and South America. The so called native-born Americans are just earlier immigrants.
The Chamber of Commerce has lost all credibility. They used to be a respected, idyllic organization that connected with the heartland of America. Not anymore.
Message to CoC: Don’t pee down my back and tell me it’s raining.
How does a steady flow of illegal, public-services-devouring immigrants impact a moribund economy with the boot of the government on the throat of the private sector business and with 92,000,000 working age citizens already unemployed?
...The Republican Party must embrace more legal immigration.[Posted on 03/19/2013 7:04:07 AM PDT by Perdogg]
Unfortunately, like many of the major debates in Washington, immigration has become a stalemate-where both sides are imprisoned by their own rhetoric or attachment to sacred cows that prevent the possibility of a balanced solution.
Immigration Reform will not occur until Conservative Republicans, like myself, become part of the solution. I am here today to begin that conversation.
Let's start that conversation by acknowledging we aren't going to deport 12 million illegal immigrants.
If you wish to work, if you wish to live and work in America, then we will find a place for you...
This is where prudence, compassion and thrift all point us toward the same goal: bringing these workers out of the shadows and into being taxpaying members of society.
Imagine 12 million people who are already here coming out of the shadows to become new taxpayers.12 million more people assimilating into society. 12 million more people being productive contributors.
Latinos, should be a natural constituency for the party, Paul argued, but "Republicans have pushed them away with harsh rhetoric over immigration." ...he would create a bipartisan panel to determine how many visas should be granted for workers already in the United States and those who might follow... [and the buried lead] "Imagine 12 million people who are already here coming out of the shadows to become new taxpayers...[Posted on 04/21/2013 1:52:42 PM PDT by SoConPubbie]
We can't possibly take in all the legal immigrants who want to come here. There are limits. We take in far too many legal immigrants every year. We don't need 1.2 million legal immigrants a year while 20 million Americans are unemployed or underemployed. We have just had the two highest decades of immigration in our history. In 1970 one in 21 was foreign born; today it is one in 8, the highest in 90 years; and within a decade it will be one in 7, the highest in our history.
Between the first quarter of 2000 and the first quarter of 2013, the native-born population accounted for two-thirds of overall growth in the working-age population (16 to 65), but none of the net growth in employment among the working-age has gone to natives.
The overall size of the working-age native-born population increased by 16.4 million from 2000 to 2013, yet the number of natives actually holding a job was 1.3 million lower in 2013 than 2000.
The total number of working-age immigrants (legal and illegal) increased 8.8 million and the number working rose 5.3 million between 2000 and 2013.
Even before the recession, when the economy was expanding (2000 to 2007), 60 percent of the net increase in employment among the working-age went to immigrants, even though they accounted for just 38 percent of population growth among the working-age population.
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