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Why are people so shortsighted about INMIGRATION?
What
would the US be without immigrants?
Statistics of foreign born scientists and engineers in
the United States:
- 55% of Ph.D. students in engineering in the United States are foreign born (2004).
- Between 1980 and 2000, the percentage of Ph.D. scientists and engineers employed
in the United States who were born abroad has increased from 24% to 37%.
- 45% of Ph.D. physicists working in the United States are foreign born (2004).
- 80% of total post-doctoral chemical and materials engineering in the United States are foreign-born (1988).
- At the undergraduate level, US-born engineering students constitute upwards of 90-95%
of the student population since most foreign born candidates for engineering graduate schools are trained in their home countries.
Yet, the size of the pool of BS engineering graduates with US citizenship is much larger than the number who apply to engineering
graduate schools including foreign born engineers and scientist.
- the proportion of foreign-born engineers among assistant professors younger than
35 years has increased from 10% in 1972 to 50%-55% in 1983-1985, illustrating a dramatic increase on US dependence on foreign-born
students in the US college system. The increase in non-citizen assistant professors of engineering is the result of the fact
that, in recent years, foreign-born engineers received close to 50 percent of newly awarded engineering doctorates (naturalized
citizens accounted for about 4 percent) and, furthermore, they entered academe in disproportionately large numbers.
- 33% of all U.S. Ph.D.s in science and engineering are now awarded to foreign born
graduate students (2004).
- In 1982, foreign-born engineers constituted about 3.6% of all engineers employed
in the United States, 13.9% of which were naturalized; and foreign-born Phds in Engineering constituted 15% and 20% were naturalized.
- In 1985, foreign-born Phds represented almost 33% of the engineering post-doctorate
researchers in US universities. Foreign-born Phd engineers often accept postdoctoral position because other employment is
unavailable until green card is obtained. A system that further incentivising replacement of US-citizens in the upper echelons
of academic and private sector engineering firms due to higher educational attainment relative to native-born engineer who
for the most part do train beyond undergraduate level.
- In recent years, The number of applicants for faculty openings at research universities
have increased dramatically. Numbers of 50 to 200 applications for a single faculty opening have become typical, yet even
with such high numbers of applicants have yielded a foreign-born component in excess of 50%.
- An astounding 60 percent of the top science students in the United States and 65
percent of the top math students are the children of immigrants. In addition, foreign-born high school students make up 50
percent of the 2004 U.S.Math Olympiad’s top scorers, 38 percent of the U.S. Physics Team, and 25 percent of the Intel
Science Talent Search finalists—the United States’ most prestigious awards for young scientists and mathematicians.
- Among 1985 foreign-born engineering doctorate holders, about 40% expected to work
in the United States after graduating. An additional 17 percent planned to stay on as post-doctorates, and most of these are
likely to remain permanently in the United States. Those, almost 60% of foreign-born engineering doctorate holders are likely
to become part of the US engineering labor force within a few years after graduating. The other approximately 40% of foreign
born engineering Phds mostly likely find employment working for Multinational corporations outside of the US.
- In the 2004 Intel Science Talent Search, more children (18) have parents who entered
the country on H-1B (professional) visas than parents born in the United States (16). To place this finding in perspective,
note that new H-1B visa holders each year represent less than 0.04 percent of the U.S. population.
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