entreprenuers
Tenacious
10/17/2011 2:36:29 PM
I think we'd benefit from an immigration policy that encouraged entreprenuers. The most logical options I've heard:
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Grant permanent residency, and an easier path to US citizenship, to immigrants who graduate from qualified US colleges and universities, especially those with degrees in mathematics, engineering, or the sciences.
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Eliminate annual caps on H1-B visas. We should give highly-educated workers the right to work within the US as long as they pass security checks.
Re: entreprenuers
driven
10/17/2011 2:41:30 PM
Thomas Friedman wrote a piece on this in the NYT a while back. Here's the part I liked best:
Good-paying jobs don’t come from bailouts. They come from start-ups. And where do start-ups come from? They come from smart, creative, inspired risk-takers. How do we get more of those? There are only two ways: grow more by improving our schools or import more by recruiting talented immigrants. Surely, we need to do both, and we need to start by breaking the deadlock in Congress over immigration, so we can develop a much more strategic approach to attracting more of the world’s creative risk-takers. “Roughly 25 percent of successful high-tech start-ups over the last decade were founded or co-founded by immigrants,” said Litan. Think Sergey Brin, the Russian-born co-founder of Google, or Vinod Khosla, the India-born co-founder of Sun Microsystems.
That is no surprise. After all, Craig Mundie, the chief research and strategy officer of Microsoft, asks: What made America this incredible engine of prosperity? It was immigration, plus free markets. Because we were so open to immigration — and immigrants are by definition high-aspiring risk-takers, ready to leave their native lands in search of greater opportunities — “we as a country accumulated a disproportionate share of the world’s high-I.Q. risk-takers.”
In college, I knew an engineering student who was in the US because of the tremendous foresight her Chinese grandparent's had decades earlier. They saw that the US immigration quotas from Central American countries were much more open than from China or other parts of Asia. So they left China for Central America. They learned Spanish and raised their children in Honduras.
This was the first step of a plan that, many years later, would allow their Grandchildren to reach the ultimate destination - the USA. My frriend benefited from two generations of planning - fluent in Madarin, Spanish, and English; she was in graduate school in the states.
Right now it can be incredibly difficult to become a legal immigrant to the US, and fairly easy to be an illegal immigrant. We seem to have this backwards.
Re: entreprenuers
ProfR
10/17/2011 3:35:46 PM
I like the idea of making it easier for college grads to stay in the US. Today the US is behind other countries in terms of science and engineering. So this would help fill a gap.
I think the big issue here is having a reasonable policy. Today we seem to have a patchwork policy with no particular goals like filling the science gap.
immigration
AskAsa
10/17/2011 4:28:34 PM
I've spoken with many people and found few who object to legal immigration into this country.
Those who enter illegally are an entirely different story.
There has to be a way to streamline the system for those who want to enter and those already here. As it is now those who want to step forward and become citizens risk a lot for just doing the right thing.
Re: entreprenuers
Broadway
10/17/2011 8:37:53 PM
Ive heard numerous business academics and execs complain and want recently that the current US immigration and visa policies will come home to roost in a very bad way in a generation and the US will be even less competitive than it is now in the global market.
Re: entreprenuers
Dex
10/17/2011 9:15:41 PM
Why is there such an abject absence of common sense in all of this? Why do we have visas that allow for education of foreigners but bar them from returning the favor by contributing to our economy?
Dex, it's a very strang system, we educate them here, fuel their mind with knowledge, stimulate their thought process and then send them home to make use of it.
Even for the most qualified of students it can be difficult to get a company to sponsor a visa right out of college. I know a young lady through a friend who after graduating with an engineering degree was unable to get a company to sponsor her visa, so she went back for a graduate degree, tried again to get a job, but had the same issue getting a visa. She moved back to Norway, got a job pretty much right away. It's sad that we don't make it easy for talented young people to stay in the US after they are educated here...
Re: entreprenuers
Phoenix
10/18/2011 7:27:45 AM
Today highly skilled workers are able to migrate to many countries. Specially Asian economies encourage them. I know of many Indian students who did well going back to India to work rather than stay behind in the USA. Although the salaries are less the cost of living is also less and they are able to stay with their relatives. So it is no wonder that countries like India are prospering. Even Asian hubs like Hongkong and Singapore encourage highly skilled workers. They offer a lot of benefits for migrant workers. When such opportunties are available I don't think skilled workers will bother much to try to get visas to the US.
Re: immigration
tokyogai
10/18/2011 8:53:35 AM
I agree completely, but we do need to look at the criteria for legal immigration- especially in the technology areas. Our laws are old and somewhat out-moded. We need to encourage the best and the brightest to come.
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