Subj : Re: Industry Calls for More Foreign Programmers
To   : comp.programming
From : spinoza1111
Date : Sat Aug 13 2005 04:38 am


Ivan Mascovich wrote:
> August 12, 2005 03:30 PM US Eastern Timezone
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> AeA Calls for Changes in Immigration Laws for Highly Educated Workers as
> H-1B Visa Petitions Reach Cap for 2006
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> WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 12, 2005--AeA, the nation's largest
> high-tech trade association, today called for reforms in the current
> immigration laws regarding highly educated workers in reaction to today's
> announcement by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS)
> that the H-1B Visa Cap has been met for 2006.
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> "Today's announcement by the USCIS further solidifies the fact that we
> need to take a serious look at immigration reform," said John Palafoutas,
> AeA's Senior Vice President for Domestic Policy. "America's well-kept
> secret is that it has rarely produced enough American-born workers with
> the requisite science and engineering background to support its knowledge
> economy. Our safety valve has been the H-1B Visa program, which was
> designed to augment the workforce. The current system is failing its
> original intentions.
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> "Denying entry of the world's most highly educated talent into the United
> States is taking its toll. We should be stapling Green Cards to the
> diplomas of every foreign national who graduates from a U.S. educational
> institution with a masters or PhD, and we should keep the world's best
> and brightest here in the U.S. to help strengthen our economy."

This is a great idea, one that would remind the world of what America
used to be, and one that would CREATE jobs in the USA.

Theodore Roosevelt refused to accept China's reparations for its part
in the Boxer Rebellion of 1900 and directed instead that it fund a
scholarship for Chinese students. This is part of what America used to
be, although it must be said that at the time Teddy Roosevelt made this
gracious gesture, strict limits were imposed (by the cowardly
great-grandfathers of today's Know-Nothing anti-immigrant forces) on
Chinese immigration.

It would create jobs in the USA because for each PhD and Master's
candidate, an array of similar and support jobs are created in the real
world.

As it happens, today, because Chinese and Indian students are being
excluded from study in the USA, the USA is gradually losing its
pre-eminence in higher education and research.

One first-rate PhD of any nation who decides to stay in the USA would
attract both companies and people to his location: but today, he is
being told to stay home.

The very idea that a "job" is a thing, which can be "protected" by
primitive methods, is neo-mercantilism.
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> About AeA
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> AeA, founded in 1943 by David Packard, is the largest nonprofit high-tech
> trade association in the United States with nearly 2,500 companies,
> representing all segments of the industry and 1.8 million employees.
> Currently, AeA has 18 offices in and around the United States, as well as
> offices abroad in Brussels and Beijing. Our primary purpose is helping
> our members' top and bottom lines by providing the following services:
> Access to Investors; State, Federal & International Lobbying; Insurance
> Services; Government Procurement; Business Networking; Foreign Market
> Access; Select Business Services; and Executive Education.

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