Return to Article: Immigration offices flooded with visa petitions for tech workers
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This is again about the money. What are they paying for these "High Tech" positions. Not what a US citizen should make. I just received my weekly "USAJOBS", and the same poisitons that were GS-13's last month, are now GS-12's. Engineering supervisors are being advertised as 12's. The Army is advertising lots of enginnering positions at YD-2. The Federal government continues to talk about the graying of the federal work force, the brain drain, experience that is being lost, and all the while lowering the wages they are going to pay, and taking away of benefits. How would you like to go to a University and sweat through the process required to build a competent "Techincal" person, only to be held under the thumb and paid less than a manager who's degree required more thought of who's party they need to be at to assure the proper circle of innfluence, than how they were going to pass a Statistics course!
The priorities in the Federal work place are wrong. If you need technical people, pay them their worth and provide meaningful work. Don't make them do the jobs that the "Others" can't do, just because it's hard, and it doesn't fit in with the social circle!
Hire the right people for the right job, pay them their dues, provide recognition, job satisfaction and you'll get all the help you need. Continue on your present course, you'll get what you deserve!
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Why are we not training our own children to do these jobs?
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My thought: Do we want foreigners to have access to our computer systems? Osama bin Laden would pay any amount of money to have conspirators in the US. Who knows how many of these immigrants may be terrorists? Who do you choose? How can you be sure they are not terrorists? What kind of background research can be done in some of the foreign countries? How did the terrorist in the 9/11 attack gain control? It only took a handful of terrorists to attack our country and kill Americans on American soil!
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This immigration problem needs to be addressed. We have to ask what it says about America's competitiveness if our businesses need skilled foreign workers to operate. Are our educational systems failing us? Why can't U.S. citizens fill these positions? What is the government doing about it? The cost of higher education is too high for many Americans. A visit to any university will show that most graduate science programs are filled with foreign-born students. Most of the faculty as well. The U.S. English-speaking students have trouble understanding the lectures. What is being done to promote science and engineering among U.S.-born citizens? As opportunities open up in their native lands these people will be going home to work and prosper, taking jobs and opportunities as well as wealth with them. Just look at the increasing number of patents coming from other nations, and the decline in ones from America.
How many times have we seen American-educated scientist working for the defense ministries of foreign powers. Saddam's Dr. Germ lady was educated in America? How stupid can our trade, education, and foreign policies be?
America needs to attract and retain all the most capable intellects from around the world. We benefited greatly from the exodus of talent from Europe during WWII. People like Einstein, Enrico Fermi, and many others all made great contributions to this country. People like Andy Grove, the founders of Google, Skype, and others, are needed by America. But, we also need to develop our own intellectual resources remembering that this is the land of Edison as well as Tesla. Remembering DARPA developed the Internet. Remember the transistor was invented in the U.S. as well as the telephone, and many other innovations. Americans are a great people, and can do anything, but we need leadership and opportunity.
We have to develop more of our native intellectual capital. Congress should increase the numbers of these visas that are available for skilled and educated immigrants. Congress should clamp down on the illegals that are poorly educated, criminally minded, and a drain on our resources and social systems, without giving anything back. Congress should also promote, advance, and fund science and engineering for U.S. citizens, and address these issues.
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Wonderful! But let's back up the visa trolley a bit. Where did these skilled tech people get their training? Many probably came here as students, studied at our fine colleges, then took themselves and their American training back home! Before we let them leave, we should require at least some service to our country before letting them back in to take jobs away from Americans.
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