Comments on: Barbara Boxer, Zoe Lofgren battle ‘brain drain’

By: Indian_Engineer

Indian_Engineer — Sun, 02 May 2010 07:30:34 +0000

I know this will probably shock a few people in this forum but not all Forign students work for low wages. I have a MSEE from a US university and have been working in Wireless Communications for the past 5 years.I was involved in building ATT, T-Mobile, Verizon wireless networks in places like Seattle, New York, LA etc and i draw a salary of about 70 dollars an hour. I’ve been in this great country for the past 8 years and worked very hard to be in the position I am right now. Getting me a green card instead of creating hurdles through a series of visa extensions etc would definitely help me. Most of my colleagues are H1B visa holders because the basic requirement for the job I do is a MSEE.

By: ProTruePatriots

ProTruePatriots — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 19:47:31 +0000

One way to get rid of the US trade deficit is to export all politicians that are in favor of offshoring jobs, expanding guest-worker visa’s, or easing immigration policy protections for American’s.

By: Cali Girl

Cali Girl — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 15:26:32 +0000

I’d like to know what protections will be in place for US citizen applicants? Zero. Past history has shown that employers will seek a foreign applicant over a US citizen purely because they can pay them a lower wage. I’d like to see the government hand out some tax incentives for hiring a US citizen. It’s shameful that it would have to be like that – they should hire Americans in the first place. With tax incentives, bet they could find some equally qualified citizen to be their employee real fast.

By: art brown

art brown — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 00:32:18 +0000

I have no experience trying to get work in the technological field but acquaintances tell me the cards are stacked against them in applying for jobs in their field. When a common aptitude and/or written knowledge test is not given then there is no paper evidence that the applicant is qualified. When the verbal questions extend past 1 hour then the questioner is searching for the one wrong answer that will disqualify the American applicant. In favor of the foreign applicant who will work at lower wages.

By: charles

charles — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 19:22:54 +0000

I went to SJSU and got a BS in Electrical Engineering. Most of my fellow grads (and most were foreigners on education visas) could not find work and were headed home or trying to get extensions through their spouse who often were working in Silicon Valley. My experience is the oppostite. There are not enough jobs for engineering graduates, and most grads end up doing lower skilled work as technicians or go back to school and get into an occupation with more security like healthcare. However, PhD’s are different than BS/MS. BS and MS are a dime a dozen these days, and I have a feeling the valley business community likes it this way, keeping such an “employers’ market”. That’s how Silicon Valley works, and this was even true during the boom.

By: Erick

Erick — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 10:39:45 +0000

Lou Charles, you silly twit, “The Contra Costa Times” is the “Onion”!

By: daveinboca

daveinboca — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 08:51:04 +0000

One suggestion, have Barbara Boxer leave the US & allow the National IQ to ascend a bit.

If only we could keep the brainiacs and evict the crime-spree illegals, the US would be a much better country. Bobo should try thinking that one through.

By: Lou Charles

Lou Charles — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 04:22:19 +0000

Are you sure this is not from the Onion?

By: Doug

Doug — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 03:37:21 +0000

Great headline. Why spoil it with a serious article?