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“Wariness over bringing in foreign talent reflects a number of concerns. Rep. Phil Gingrey (R-Ga.) expressed unease that “Asian and Indian names” increasingly dominate newspaper lists of top SAT scores in his Marietta district, and asked Gates whether “youngsters who look like me”- the congressman is white - might find the influx of skilled foreign workers to be a deterrent in pursuing careers in technology and engineering.”
This is Bill Gates’ response, saying that trying to slow immigration screws America and forces outsourcing directly to those countries. This congressman needs to be blasted for the xenophobic, racist thinking that people with Asian last names aren’t American.
Here are two articles that clarify what Bill Gates was talking about. He is inferring that these top scientists/engineers from China/India are going to be hired either way, either as US immigrants, or as outsourced labor.
Wariness over bringing in foreign talent reflects a number of sensitive concerns. Rep. Phil Gingrey, R-Ga., expressed unease that Asian and Indian names increasingly dominate newspaper lists of top SAT scores in his district of Marietta, and asked Gates whether the influx of highly skilled foreign workers created by more ofthe visas would be a deterrent to U.S. kids in pursuing careers in technology and engineering.
“Our youngsters are competing with these students even if we turn them away from this country,” Gates responded. “Computer science is not a game played only in the United States. At the end of the day, you’re going to compete with the best in the world.”
“If we bring more people from the outside,” said Rohrabacher, referring to foreign workers who come to the U.S. under the H-1B temporary visa program, “will it also not depress the wages in our own country that people like yourself would have to pay your employees?”
“No,” said Gates firmly. “These top people are going to be hired. It’s just a question of what country they are hired in.”
“I’m not really talking about the top people here,” responded Rohrabacher, cutting off Gates. “There are a lot of other people in this society rather than just the top people. It’s the B and C students that fight for our country and kept it free so that people like yourself would have the opportunity that you’ve had.
“Those people, whether or not they get displaced by the top people from another country, is not our goal. Our goal isn’t to replace the jobs of B students with the A students from India,” Rohrabacher said.
“That’s right,” Gates said, “And what I’ve said here is that when we bring in these world-class engineers, we create jobs around them. The B and C students are the ones who get those jobs around these top engineers. And if these top engineers are forced to work in India, we will hire the B and C students from India to work around them.”
