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Tuesday, February 28th, 2017

After Kansas Shootings, Indians Are Wary of Coming to U.S.

Author:     Ellen Barry and Nida Najar
Source:     The New York Times
Publication Date:     FEB. 26, 2017
 Link: After Kansas Shootings, Indians Are Wary of Coming to U.S.
Stephan:   This is a very bad trend; bad in so many ways. Let me just take one, patents.We no longer have manufacturing, jobs are increasingly being robotized, the one place we have remained a positive force is science and technology. And that is largely because of immigrants. In 2012, a study by the Partnership for the New American Economy found "that more than 75 percent of new patents awarded to America’s top ten patent-producing universities had at least one foreign-born inventor." In 2013, 51 per cent of the 303,000 patents granted were awarded to immigrants. As this report describes Donald Trump's policies will have the long term effect of crippling American science and technology.

A church service in Olathe, Kan., in honor of two immigrants from India who were shot in a bar.
Credit Amy Stroth/The New York Times

NEW DELHI — Jeena Sharma, 25, was applying for a work visa to the United States when news came that two Indian engineers had been shot in a Kansas bar by a man who drunkenly questioned their immigration status.

News of the shootings, which took place last Wednesday, was quickly eclipsed by other developments in Washington, and even in Kansas, but the same cannot be said of the Sharma household of Mumbai, where Ms. Sharma has received emphatic maternal lectures about her plans to move, starting first thing in the morning.

“She asked me: ‘Why do you even need to go to the States? Why do you need to go to a country that doesn’t want you? I’m going to be scared for your life every day,’” Ms. Sharma said.

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1 Comment

  1. shovland on Tuesday, February 28, 2017 at 7:04 am

    More than anyone in the world, Americans invented computers and a lot of other things. We do not need to import talent. Immigrants have had no effect on keeping manufacturing in the US. The same companies who employ so many H1’s have played a major role in destroying IT as a career for Americans. Some of these companies are also very eager to replace humans with robots. It amounts to economic treason. The rise of Trump is no surprise. After decades of neglect the pot reached the boiling point and American citizens rose up to send a message.