Offering Residency to Foreign Engineers and Scientists
Posted on February 24, 2008 Comments (2)
Rep. Lofgren wants residency for foreign engineers
Lofgren, a Democrat, spoke to an audience Friday at the Joint Venture: Silicon Valley conference about threats to innovation in the area. She said that about 56 percent of the Ph.D. candidates at the finest schools in the United States are immigrants, and because of the government’s current immigration policy, many of those people leave the country.
I support such legislation. I also think it is only one, of many measure to take to encourage science and engineering excellence (which will in turn help the economy). I have no doubt that other countries are going to be successful establishing their own global centers of excellence and attract scientists and engineers from around the world: including from the USA. The Curious Cat Science and Engineering Blog now includes a tag cloud on the right side of our home page, tags for this post include: government and economy.
Related: Brain Drain Benefits to the USA Less Than They Could Be – economic benefits of science and engineering excellence – USA Losing Brain Drain Benefits
Categories: Career, Economics, Engineering, Math, Universities
Tags: Career, centers of excellence, economy, engineering education, government, legislation, politics, university, USA
2 Responses to “Offering Residency to Foreign Engineers and Scientists”
Leave a Reply
RSS Feed
April 9th, 2009 @ 7:26 pm
[…] readers of this blog, I am actually not a big opponent of H-1B visas. I believe we benefit more by allowing tech savy workers to work in the USA than we lose. I understand people fear jobs are being taken away, but I don’t believe it. I […]
July 1st, 2009 @ 1:42 pm
I believe that we should have them work in the U.S. and be granted legal residency.