Some top ranked graduate students from Stanfurd and other fine universities have not even been allowed to sit for perfunctory interviews in Silly Con Valley.... the electronics corporations prefer to import (somewhat) cheaper and (much more, they think) compliant labor from Communist China (and in programming jobs, India).
This has been going on for at least half a century and every USA administration has played along (taken the Silly Con Valley corporate money) ... and let the companies get away with this.
This is not limited to the big Californication corporate wheels, either. While the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (basically still a management front organization) has pretty effectively scrubbed, cleaned out the history (especially hard now to find it on the internet), one Irwin Feerst nearly secured election (many say he did so .. but that the corporate management officers threw away a big box full of his ballots)..........nearly secured election as an upstart “working level engineer’ candidate for the IEEE Presidency. In the 60’s or 70’s. He was from New York and his main complaint, cause was exactly the same, to try to get some controls, limits on the big companies’ reserving so many jobs for “cheap” imported labor.
So really, there is nothing new under the sun (King Solomon was correct), and today the MAJORITY of the Silly Con Valley labor force are from Communist China, India, Asia, etc. Plus, these are not stupid people.. some of them have gone off payroll to start their own companies here... and they reportedly hire almost exclusively import labor, too
It is amusing to see all the fuss and bother being stirred up to try to get American school kids to study “STEM” .. science,technology, engineering, math subjects. But the kids aren’t idiots... they can see that the employment opportunities right here in USA are so limited as they are.....at least, limited to American students... and so they either study other EASIER subjects (many of which have very limited employment opportunities, too, but at least they’re easier subjects...why take hard courses if you’re gonna be discriminated against and left unemployed when you graduate, may as well take easy subjects and enjoy your salad days)
it is bad for America, not that I am saying to stop all import labor....but let’s at least give our own kids a chance at American jobs first!
The other half are spying on Them!