TW: Even before 9/11 our immigration policies favored families over skilled workers. Since 9/11 our poor protocols on skilled workers have become even more burdensome and ineffective. Now with the relative weakness in the U.S. economy versus some emerging markets we are sending folks back home rather than retaining them. This is craziness. We should be promoting policies to make skilled workers flock to the U.S.
ps: I saw as well that the aggregate number of foreign born folks in the states fell by 100K last year the first time in forty years.
From USA Today:
"...What was a trickle has become a flood," says Duke University's Vivek Wadhwa, who studies reverse immigration.
Wadhwa projects that in the next five years, 100,000 immigrants will go back to India and 100,000 to China, countries that have had rapid economic growth.
"For the first time in American history, we are experiencing the brain drain that other countries experienced," he says.
Suren Dutia, CEO of TiE Global, a worldwide network of professionals who promote entrepreneurship, says the U.S. economy will suffer without these skilled workers. "If the country is going to maintain the kind of economic well-being that we've enjoyed for many years, that requires having these incredibly gifted individuals who have been educated and trained by us," he says..."
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2009-09-20-brain-drain_N.htm
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