What kind of graduates are they pumping out? What are you getting at? I’m assuming that they are pumping out engineers. Am I wrong? We have many problems with immigration. I’m just bringing up one. We can site many examples of abuse and talk about this countries demise till we’re blue in the face. I was recently introduced to the H1-B process and started doing a little research. I saw it as a problem that deserved hearing other peoples opinions on. I chose to bring it up here so that I could speak to highly intelligent educated people. By no means am I saying that this is my only immigration concern. I might be one of the few that is hanging onto the hope that this country can become great again.
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You say you are doing research, I gave you the best possible path to go observe for yourself. Why assume what they are “pumping out” when you can go see for yourself? If the student body looked ((ahem)) “american” and then they looked very different at qcom, you can make the argument that qcom is going out of their way to hire H1-Bs. If not, you will realize that the problem is not qcom… the problem is not enough american kids are going thru the engineering schools. Unfortunately, in this great country of yours, you cannot force them to go to an engineering school.
Why do that when you can get into student debt and get a liberal arts degree that is practically useless for many tech employers?
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dumbrenter, see my post, above. I believe that, among millenials in CA (up to age 35 or so) a very large portion of students (and possibly tech workers, as well) who don’t “look” ((ahem)) too “american” to an observer actually ARE American in that they were born in the US and did, in fact, attend CA public and/or private schools from K-12. Perhaps their mothers still dress in the traditional dress of their home country and both of their parents are legal immigrants, or more likely, now American citizens, but I DO believe CA universities ARE churning out mostly “American-citizen” engineering graduates.
The $64M question here is, What does a typical (millenial) American citizen look like today?
This dialog reminds me of the (ignorant) general public claiming that South (SD) County schools have an overwhelmingly predominately “Hispanic” student population (btw, “Hispanics” are actually Caucasians). This public perception is based upon student-recorded designations when they take their STAR, CAHSEE and other mandatory exams which rate their school performance in comparison with other area schools of the same age group (ie elem, middle and high school). The more students of a “protected class” a district has, the more eligible Federal funds they receive for special programs, equipment and such. As a class of students sit down for their mandatory annual testing at all relevant grade levels, they are counseled by their teachers to claim a race or nationality that they “most identify with” and told that if they have Hispanic relatives and/or a Hispanic surname, they can check the bubble “Hispanic.” However, I can tell you from my long “boots on the ground” experience that a very large percentage (over 40% in some schools) of South County students with Hispanic-sounding surnames (and/or with surnames ending in z) are overtly Caucasian. A much smaller percentage of Hispanic-students-on-paper are overtly African American. For example, an individual can have ONE grandparent who is just one-half Hispanic (out of four grandparents) and have a Hispanic surname but are actually 1/8 Hispanic (or less). This phenomenon is truer for American millenials than for any generation preceding them.
You can’t always judge a young person’s citizenship (or even race/Nationality in some instances), by their appearance or surname.
