Date: Tue, 05 Mar 2013 19:04:04 -0500
From: mark <whitroth at 5-cent.us>
To: undisclosed-recipients:;
Subject: [WSFA] Are foreign students the =?UTF-8?B?4oCYYmVzdCBhbmQgYnJpZ2h0ZXN04oCZ? =?UTF-8?B?Pw==?=
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

As if we didn't know....

Excerpt:
The technology industry, in lobbying Congress for expansion of programs
to attract skilled foreign workers, has long claimed that foreign
students graduating from U.S. universities in science, technology,
engineering, and mathematics are typically  - =C2=80=C2=9Cthe best and th=
e
brightest, - =C2=80=C2=9D i.e., exceptionally talented innovators in thei=
r fields.
However, the industry and its supporters have offered little or no
evidence to back up their assertion. The claim is investigated in this
report, with a focus on former foreign students now working in the
United States, the group viewed by the industry as key to innovation.

The assertion that the foreign graduates offer superior skills or
ability relative to U.S. graduates is found not to be supported by the da=
ta:

     On a variety of measures, the former foreign students have talent
lesser than, or equal to, their American peers.
     Skilled-foreign-worker programs are causing an internal brain drain =

in the United States.

The lack of evidence that the foreign students and workers we are
recruiting offer superior talent reinforces the need to assure that
programs like H-1B visa are used only to attract the best and the
brightest or to remedy genuine labor shortages - =C2=80=C2=94not to serve=
 as a
source of cheap, compliant labor. We must eliminate employer incentives
for using foreign workers as cheap labor, and we must end the practice
of using green card sponsorship to render foreign workers captive to the =

employers who bring them into the country.
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<http://www.epi.org/publication/bp356-foreign-students-best-brightest-imm=
igration-policy/>

        mark