Tuesday, December 15, 2009

Reversing the Foreign Brain Drain-2

So this brain drain is happening is making the people happy here. They say that since we already have a high unemployment and then these foreign graduates are hired at much lower salary and take away whatever few jobs we have right now so it is just fine that they come here study and leave. But it is not as simple as that. These people are not unskilled people; they have been trained in our country and educated in our finest educational institutions. They have the desire to stay here and contribute towards the prosperity of this country. If we will create hurdles in their path, then we will be defeating two purposes on which this country was founded. First it is that it is the land of opportunity and anybody with skills and determination can become what he or she wants to be. And second this is a country of immigrants. We should welcome these skilled people with open arms and provide them an opportunity to thrive and innovate and create jobs.

Although my suggestion to welcome these graduates will not be liked by everybody but it is essential that we keep the U.S. the land of opportunity for these graduates. I know that we have a high unemployment rate but these graduates are not taking jobs away from the U.S. born graduates. If proper rules and laws are in place, I don’t see that how it will add to the unemployment of the local (U.S.) graduates.

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