One of my 2 kids is working in STEM area. And she is doing really well right in the heart of India stronghold of silicon valley. Both my kids are American born citizens while I am just a naturalized US citizen from way back in 1970.
BTW, I have no problem with naturalized citizens or foreigners...I just think the immigration rate is too high—such that we as a country are not assimilating immigrants as well as in the past. I enjoy meeting and gathering with people from different cultures—learning new skills, customs, etc. In fact I lived in married student/grad student housing at 2 universities with people from all over the globe...and even made some lifelong friends...
However, now there are too many Americans under employed who could and should be taking these jobs. These tech jobs are not the landscaping jobs supposedly no one wants to do that the South American and Mexicans are taking*...
I believe we are the only country that sells out jobs to foreigners first instead of giving priority to US citizens—tho I believe the H-1B regs state we should be doing this.
If our US citizens are not able to fill positions, why are we not training them to master the necessary skills to do so? ...Our “capitalist” system seems to have money to take care of every need of all illegal aliens crossing our border** yet we cannot train millennials and 50-somethings who have fallen thru the cracks and are not even in the labor stats. (I know Freepers in this category.)...
Sorry, SB386 is not MAGA.
Please consider a call, email and/or TWEET President Trump ~ when campaigning, he did say he would put US workers first...at least steel and factory jobs...
*BTW, when my kids were preteens and teens, they had a difficult time trying to compete with the cheap-labor express lawn services...Guess that was a foreshadowing of what was to come...what they would be facing after earning adanced STEM degrees...
**Did you read the FR thread on the illegal alien mom who had SEVEN KIDS??
Immigration rate is high but acceptable because our economy is doing better than any other country in the world.
My issue with admitting million plus legal immigrants every years is this...majority are sponsored by a relative living in US, with no minimum levels required for education/skills/wealth. My own aunt was sponsored by her daughter, she was in her early 70’s, received lifetime benefits for supplemental social security monthly checks, medicaid, food stamps. Yet she never paid a dime in any taxes. The least gov’t should do is make the sponsoring party support the immigrant.
I would prefer immigrants who either bring in wealth or have skills in demand in the US job market. That is what New Zealand does, and in addition they require passing English proficiency test. Immigrants admitted in United States have no such requirements.
AGREED we are importing too many junk quality immigrants.
Importing STEM college graduates helps economy grow. America is creating more millionaires then ever and more than any other country. That shows there is STILL plenty of opportunities in America to succeed. There is nothing in the constitution which says if you have a college degree you are guaranteed success. America is and should be a land of OPPORTUNITY. That credo is why we are #1 economy in the world. Protectionism in the job market is not American.