Stephan:   One of the bigger lies of the Republican anti-immigration movement is that immigrants are taking jobs for honest White working Americans. It is root and branch nothing but BS. From farming, which is in desperate trouble because immigrants aren't showing up to work, and those honest White working class Americans won't do the backbreaking farm work, to virtual reality research immigrants are one of the largest creators of jobs for Americans. Let's deal with some facts: "Accessing the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s public online database, the study reviewed 1,466 patents from the top ten patent-producing universities in 2011: the University of California system, Stanford University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of Wisconsin, the University of Texas system, California Institute of Technology, the University of Illinois system, University of Michigan, Cornell University and Georgia Institute of Technology. The review of patents from these leading research universities found the following:

• 76 percent of the patents had a foreign-born inventor.
• 54 percent of the patents were awarded to the group of foreign inventors most likely to face visa hurdles: students, postdoctoral fellows, or staff researchers.
• Foreign-born inventors played significant roles in the fields of semiconductor device manufacturing (87 percent), information technology (84 percent), pulse or digital communications (83 percent), pharmaceutical drugs or drug compounds (79 percent) and optics (77 percent)."

And it all starts with immigrants coming to the U.S. to attend college. But... oh dear... Trumpian nastiness is causing the number of bright young people coming to U.S. colleges to drop like a rock.  Where are they going? Well a lot are going to Canada, so look for Canada to begin to surge ahead in technology research. Here's the story.