Will decreasing international students and new H1B1 visas rule cause issues at the NNSA labs. This could cripple the high tech job market and STEM research so no matter what this will directly or indirectly cause big issues at NNSA labs.
Kaku sums this up.
The fact is that the U.S. might be a dynamo for capital but not when it comes to what economists crudely call “human capital.” The point applies not only to immigrant workers who do jobs Americans won’t, but also those who do jobs Americans can’t, because, as physicist Michio Kaku argues above, “the United States has the worst educational system known to science.” Were it solely up to U.S. graduates, the scientific establishment and tech economy would collapse, he says, “forget about Google, forget about Silicon Valley. There would be no Silicon Valley.” Instead, U.S. science and tech thrive because of immigrants who come on H‑1B visas.
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The labs don't employ or sponsor a lot of H1B visa holders. Most H1Bs, no disrespect intended, are relatively low skill by lab standards. They tend to be coders and other IT people, not accomplished scientists. Real scientists have other visa options like the O visa.
However, restricting the H1B visa mill could have the knock off effect of opening up more tech jobs for Americans in the private sector, which could make it even harder to hire acceptable IT people at the labs. But regardless, NNSA labs were never big employers of Indian or Iranian foreign nationals, if you didn't know that already.
The reason top tech companies often hire foreign-born & first-generation engineers over “native” Americans isn’t because of an innate American IQ deficit (a lazy & wrong explanation). A key part of it comes down to the c-word: culture. Tough questions demand tough answers & if we’re really serious about fixing the problem, we have to confront the TRUTH:
Our American culture has venerated mediocrity over excellence for way too long (at least since the 90s and likely longer). That doesn’t start in college, it starts YOUNG.
A culture that celebrates the prom queen over the math olympiad champ, or the jock over the valedictorian, will not produce the best engineers.
Bunch of propaganda. Companies hire H1Bs because they are cheaper and the visa is a type of indentured servitude since it is tied to a single employer.
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