Agreed, but we continue to have an immigration policy that is not related to our job needs. We just had the largest decade of legal immigration in US history at a time when we had a net loss of jobs during that same period.
In times of low employment, I wouldn’t have any immigration at all.
And I don’t see why we should bring in those to compete with our computer software engineers and doctors, and not bring in others. First, any engineer or doctor not trained in the USA is automatically suspicious in my mind.
Would you want heart surgery from a guy trained in Egypt or would you want to drive across a bridge by a guy who studied in Zimbabwe?
“Hi I was in the bottom half of my class in Mugabe’s wonderland paradise”
Agreed, but we continue to have an immigration policy that is not related to our job needs. We just had the largest decade of legal immigration in US history at a time when we had a net loss of jobs during that same period.
We desperately need more doctors—have you seen the waiting times for an appointment under Romneycare?
And the more high-skilled techies we have, the bigger share of the global IT market we can command. It’s not a zero-sum pie.