BlackSheepRehab on Nostr: Because the workforce that he needs is in the US. For as shit as our secondary and ...
Because the workforce that he needs is in the US. For as shit as our secondary and non-STEM undergraduate education system is in this country, an American post-graduate degree is still an aspiration for many of those foreigners. According to the NSF, data from last decade, 3/4 of those receiving PhDs remain in this country and secure H1B visas to work here.
Anecdotal evidence from folks I know currently going through PhD programs (physics and engineering) is that roughly 2% are Caucasian Americans. Most of the rest are foreigners. We simply don’t have enough people with an interest in becoming scientists and engineers to create the workforce that our more advantageous business environment demands to develop technical solutions.
When a foreigner has a 5-8 year track record (or longer as many do undergraduate degrees in the US as well) of living in this country, adapting to our ways and putting in the effort to receive a degree, why should we not allow them to work for a US company instead of exporting that sort of drive and education? Especially when it is lacking in so many of the young engineers born in this country.
Anecdotal evidence from folks I know currently going through PhD programs (physics and engineering) is that roughly 2% are Caucasian Americans. Most of the rest are foreigners. We simply don’t have enough people with an interest in becoming scientists and engineers to create the workforce that our more advantageous business environment demands to develop technical solutions.
When a foreigner has a 5-8 year track record (or longer as many do undergraduate degrees in the US as well) of living in this country, adapting to our ways and putting in the effort to receive a degree, why should we not allow them to work for a US company instead of exporting that sort of drive and education? Especially when it is lacking in so many of the young engineers born in this country.