Many industries in Silicon Valley, Texas and the Northeast already rely on highly skilled, foreign-born workers for a significant portion of their workforces. Such workers are particularly valuable in sectors of the U.S. economy tied to the so-called STEM fields (science, technology, engineering and mathematics). Last year, a National Foundation for American Policy study found that up to 70 percent of students in a few key U.S. STEM graduate programs are foreign-born.\u00a0<\/p>\n
And now, the U.S. defense industry is adapting to a national military strategy more reliant on technological superiority than on amassed hardware or troops. As defense professionals at the Pentagon and beyond revise their military plans, they are seeing an increasingly acute need for these talented STEM workers.<\/p>\n
The importance of keeping foreign-born, graduating STEM students in this country cannot be overestimated.<\/p>\n
Part of the need for foreign-born STEM workers is driven by a simple principle of supply-and-demand economics. The number (more…)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Many industries in Silicon Valley, Texas and the Northeast already rely on highly skilled, foreign-born workers for a significant portion of their workforces. Such workers are particularly valuable in sectors of the U.S. economy tied to the so-called STEM fields…<\/span><\/p>\n