PUT AMERICAN ENGINEERS TO WORK FIRST
As an engineer with a graduate degree, I take exception to "America's Immigrant Brain Drain" (Outside Shot, Mar. 16).
The spirit of entrepreneurship existed in Silicon Valley well before the influx of H-1B immigrants. It's insulting to hear the author repeat the claim that there aren't enough qualified engineering and science grads in the U.S., while many of my colleagues find themselves out of work.
If companies truly believe this, they should lobby Congress to use some of the stimulus money to help graduates of American universities pursue advanced science degrees.
Dominick Vo
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