Alan Greenspan was not shy about the motivation for increased STEM immigration: "We pay the highest skilled labor wages in the world. If we would open up our borders to skilled labor far more than we do, we would attract a very substantial quantity of skilled labor which would suppress the wage levels of the skilled..."
http://www.boston.com/business/globe/articles/2007/03/14/greenspan_let_more_skilled_immigrants_in/
The idea of STEM shortages is advanced to shave corporate costs. The AFL-CIO explains that there is no shortage. “ Between 2006 and 2007, the U.S. Department of Education and the Computing Research Association show that colleges and universities graduated more than 203,000 students with Bachelor’s, Master’s or Ph.D.s in the core disciplines of computer and information sciences, math and engineering and engineering technology. This number more than surpasses the 82,000 new jobs expected to be added in computer and mathematical science occupations during this time period."
http://dpeaflcio.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/Guest-Worker-Programs-and-STEM.pdf
22 million Americans are unemployed. Let's take care of them first, *then* start thinking about the rest of the world.
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Alan Greenspan was not shy about the motivation for increased STEM immigration: "We pay the highest skilled labor wages in the world. If we would open up our borders to skilled labor far more than we do, we would attract a very substantial quantity of skilled labor which would suppress the wage levels of the skilled..." http://www.boston.com/business/globe/articles/2007/03/14/greenspan_let_more_skilled_immigrants_in/ The idea of STEM shortages is advanced to shave corporate costs. The AFL-CIO explains that there is no shortage. “ Between 2006 and 2007, the U.S. Department of Education and the Computing Research Association show that colleges and universities graduated more than 203,000 students with Bachelor’s, Master’s or Ph.D.s in the core disciplines of computer and information sciences, math and engineering and engineering technology. This number more than surpasses the 82,000 new jobs expected to be added in computer and mathematical science occupations during this time period." http://dpeaflcio.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/Guest-Worker-Programs-and-STEM.pdf 22 million Americans are unemployed. Let's take care of them first, *then* start thinking about the rest of the world.