One side of the immigration debate -- America needs highly skilled workers.
As I've argued in these pages, it is a disaster for the United States that we have so few H-1B visas available for high-skill foreign workers who want to become part of the American economy. We spend years educating foreigners, especially in technical fields, and then refuse their requests to work here. Instead we say "No, go back to Bangalore or Taipei and compete against us with what you've learned here."
It is truly insane from an economic point of view. America was made great by immigrants. The current nativist trends within both political parties, but especially the GOP, represents the worst of American narrow-mindedness and a complete lack of an understanding of history.
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There is a pretty hefty Russian (Moscow) contingent that works for Boeing. Eric gets to work closely with them. They are great people, good engineers, but a lot of times their computer skills are seriously lacking. He's had trouble working with some from other countries that don't seem to have the ability to extrapolate (or build on a computer concept) without direct instruction. Do we need to teach foreign countries better computer skills? Do we need to be teaching them anything at all?
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