execs turn back on innovative US STEM talent
The USA has over 1.8 million able and willing US citizen STEM workers who are not employed to do STEM work.
Dozens of academic studies (Duke, Georgetown, Harvard, RAND Corp...) have concluded that there was and is no shortage of able and willing US citizen STEM workers. Several studies have concluded that execs have been employing a mere 35% of the able and willing US citizen STEM workers we've been adding in recent decades.
The article is also deceptive in that the State Department has repeatedly reported that they've been issuing over 110,000 H-1B visas each year via consular offices in addition to an unspecified number of changes of status to H-1B.
Even former cross-border bodyshopper has admitted that, by every measure (especially creativity, flexibility, dynamic application of principles and concepts to new situations and purposes), US STEM workers are the best, and that the core purpose of H-1B and L-1 visas is to obtain cheap, young, pliant foreign labor (and, we have good reason to believe, to undermine standards of professional ethics). Meanwhile, hundreds of US politicians are pushing to stab even more US STEM workers in the back.
> invented a way to transmit electricity wirelessly
That's already been done, first by Tesla, and more recently by the several firms which make recharging stations which do not require devices to be plugged in.
> water filtration membrane that used nanotechnology to desalinate water
Already done several years back.
At least you could come up with an example of something that was genuinely cutting edge, a real break-through in the state of the art.
