“I want to emphasize that to address the shortage of scientists and engineers, we must do both – reform our education system and our immigration policies. If we don’t, American companies simply will not have the talent they need to innovate and compete.” As Bill Gates stated in 2008, immigration policies for skilled workers have always been an issue. High-tech firms advocate passionately about reforming immigration systems as they are facing shortage of skilled workers, but labor unions and conservative immigration groups, by contrast, strongly oppose to it. As one of the most immigrant friendly countries in the world, the United States certainly has a large number of foreign skilled workers as well as foreign students inflow every year. For international students, except experiencing world-leading education system, possible chance of working for American companies permanently is also one of the drive factors to choose America over other countries. …show more content…
In April 2008, Department of Homeland Security established a policy called STEM (degree programs in science, technology, engineering and mathematics) OPT Extension, which greatly benefit foreign students holding STEM major degrees, who are identified as potential skilled workers, in getting their working visa in the U.S. In August 2015 however, the policy was revoked by federal court. After measuring the effects of different dimensions of globalization, such as trade and immigration, on firms, with an emphasis on productivity and innovation, I believe raising H1B visa cap will fulfill the shortage of skilled workers, who bring direct impacts in gains of innovations in the
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When we think of Immigrant rights, we tend to only focus on one group of immigrants. Latinos are the face of immigration policies in the United States. Where does change come from? Does change come from above or below? Change comes from above because they are the ones that implement new laws that either target or help immigrant rights.
Immigration reform has been a big issue for our country in recent years. Many U.S. citizens claim that immigration is harmful to the US economy. In just 20 years, we have seen the average number of immigrants per year jump a staggering 20%. This has lead to the biased opinions we see towards immigration today. Currently, our country is not receiving any benefit from immigration.
Within the United States, one of the hardest things to do is motivating people to participate politically. A normal American frankly is not interested in the actions taken by a politician on a day-to-day bases. People naturally think as individuals instead on what is best for the group. The documentary “Immigration Battle” tracks the actions taken in Washington to attempt the passing of immigration reform and shows how low political participation is an issue. Currently Immigration reform is still stuck in government but there is still a multitude of people attempting to get something passed.
Immigration Reform: Yes, or No Currently, there is constant dispute over the United States immigration system, pertaining to whether or not it should be reformed and if so how should it be done. Large uncontrolled immigrant population has begun to flourish in this nation due to flaws in the system. Another issue that has arisen in result of this faulty system is unsafe living conditions for both citizens and immigrants moving here. Adding to this, another controversial topic falling within the reforming of the system is its effect on employment rates.
Due to its welcoming nature and diversity, America has become the center of connections and trading; which increases working opportunities. Not only so, our government is established to support
These issues must be handled quickly and properly. A possible solution explored in children in the aftermath of immigration enforcement is that the present immigration laws be reformed to benefit and meet the needs of children, especially U.S. citizen children, during deportation proceedings. Children who are under the legal age U.S. citizens should be allowed to petition for their parents to become legal permanent residents. In recent years there has been stricter implementation of law enforcement. Due to cause and effects this has resulted in the unnecessary separation of families.
Immigration problem face by Immigrant entrepreneurs in U.S.A. Most small businesses in America are owned and operated by immigrates. They are face with the problem of deportation. They live with this fear of deportation because they can be send back to their various countries at any time from the country the love to do business in and creating and helping most Americans to provide them with jobs and they pay their taxes that increase the economy. Most of these business owners came to America with Student visas and H-1B visas that expire after their studies or their contracts have expired with the companies that brought them to U.S to work.
However, the temporary work visas are not easy to obtain and require a specific skill set. Usually a specific employer wants the individual who meets their needs extraordinarily well would seek out the immigrant and the immigrant would not find the employer ("Green Card Through a Job"). For the immigrants seeking lifetime employment in the United States there is a limited number of immigrants per category per year totaling one hundred forty thousand ("How the United States Immigration System Works: A Fact Sheet"). Eighty thousand visas are reserved for people with advanced degrees and are not for average immigrants seeking employment. Thirty-five thousand are reserved for immigrants who have a minimum of a two-year degree and the other twenty thousand are for special purposes such as investors and religious purposes ("Green Card Through a Job").
One of the reasons there is so much immigrant population in this country is because of the economy. In the past, immigration was helpful to the economy when people encouraged it so that the it could become prosperous and bring in diversity and help needed. Today, many people are afraid of losing their jobs. Immigration is currently flooding the labor market, primarily in the low-skill, low-wage sectors, and driving down wages and working conditions for many Americans because our immigration policies do not take economic conditions into account. Illegal immigration probably has its greatest impact on the United States’
Introduction and Presentation Ladies and Gentlemen, Welcome to my speech and thank you very much for coming here today! Some of you already know me, but for those who do not; my name is Miriem Hansen, and I am 19 years old and I study Accounting and Finance at the University of London. Outline I am here today to give you a speech on the new Immigration Reform in the United States. Obama has recently introduced the Immigration Reform to the people.
In the United States, there has become a shortage of skilled labor in the workforce. This shortage can be explained by multiple factors that play important roles in the labor force. These factors can play a role in all jobs in the workforce, but are impacting the skilled labor workers most harshly. Some of the factors include benefits and education. The shortage starts with education and continues on with the reduction in income along with benefits.
Moreover, they indicated foreign degrees had a lower economic return than the same level of domestic degrees. Canadian credential as criterion takes a more important role than educational degree in determining employee’s ability. They mentioned spilt labor market theory which same qualitied works, but different wages between native-born and immigrants. The reason of causing that situation is different origins labor prices in history (Bonacich,1979). Besides the discrimination, the foreign credentials worth less value than Canadian credential is resulting in lacking of professional and
Same with the previous research, this analysis finds no significant effect of immigration on net job growth for native-born workers. This suggests that the economy absorbs immigrants by expanding job opportunities rather than by displacing native-born workers in the United States. Moreover, the work force, like the economy, is not fixed and static. The U.S economy itself is dynamic, fluctuating, and creates hundreds of new jobs every
The U.S. has a very good education system and it can help people become anything they want to be in life, which is why immigrants want their