It looks obvious

During the 1990’s Israel experienced massive immigration. In a decade a country of approximately five million citizens accepted additional million immigrants from the former USSR. The beginning was not easy, not for the immigrants and not for those who accepted them. People had problem to find jobs, let alone appropriate one. Additionally the locals start complaining that wages are decreasing since the immigrants are willing to accept jobs for lower salaries. It didn’t take long however, practically less than a decade, and the effect of the immigration contributed to amazing change in the Israeli market - new jobs, areas that were under develop before (great example is the new flourish of classical music ) and return to the pre-immigration unemployment rate.

Whenever I hear populist like Lou Dobbs complaining about the immigrant that taking “American Jobs” I only need to remember the amazing blessing of that the immigration wave of the 1990’s had on Israel to know how wrong he is. Furthermore, I simply cannot understand the reasons for government regulations that limit immigrations of highly educated people. Apparently, I’m not the only one:

Modernity means the multiplication of dependencies on things utterly mysterious to those who are dependent — things such as semiconductors, which control the functioning of almost everything from cellphones to computers to cars. “The semiconductor,” says a wit who manufactures them, “is the OPEC of functionality, except it has no cartel power.” Semiconductors are, like oil, indispensable to the functioning of many things that are indispensable. Regarding oil imports, Americans agonize about a dependence they cannot immediately reduce. Yet their nation’s policy is the compulsory expulsion or exclusion of talents crucial to the creativity of the semiconductor industry that powers the thriving portion of our bifurcated economy. While much of the economy sputters, exports are surging, and the semiconductor industry is America’s second-largest exporter, close behind the auto industry in total exports and the civilian aircraft industry in net exports.

The semiconductor industry’s problem is entangled with a subject about which the loquacious presidential candidates are reluctant to talk — immigration, specifically that of highly educated people. Concerning whom, U.S. policy should be: A nation cannot have too many such people, so send us your PhDs yearning to be free.

Instead, U.S. policy is: As soon as U.S. institutions of higher education have awarded you a PhD, equipping you to add vast value to the economy, get out. Go home. Or to Europe, which is responding to America’s folly with “blue cards” to expedite acceptance of the immigrants America is spurning.

I guess it will be only fair to disclose the fact that I am also an Immigrant and, although not a PhD, manage software development projects.