Vivek Wadhwa Quotes
the skilled immigrants will be long gone. They’ll be back home building the next Googles and Intels in other countries, and we will wake up 5 years from now and wonder how we let this happen.
If we do not change the immigration laws and give visas and green cards to foreigners who earn degrees at American universities,
Vivek Wadhwa, Indian-Born American Citizen & Businessman, “100 Top Global Thinkers”, Foreign Policy, December 2012
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The counter-argument given by many of the left and the right is what while they contribute, they displace American citizens from these opportunities.
France, which in the 18th and 19th centuries was the center of science and technology for the world, has become more culturally conservative and has developed a maturity towards money and materialism which admires science and innovation but is reluctant to make the sacrifices in living and social style that is often required. Corporate regulations and banking and investment standards made it hard to form a Silicon Valley type organization in France. Many young people had gone to other countries to develop their skills and gain experience, but few return to France while many will start companies, they do it elsewhere.
Statement made during televised debate with Walter Mondale, October 21, 1984 (see citation).
Fiji had undergone a succession of coups and the unstable political situation and the ethnic strife had caused man of the educated young people to emigrate. This “brain drain” is common in many third world countries.
The nation was divided over the issue of immigration. Many observed that the vast majority of the immigrants—especially the illegal immigrants performed jobs for which American workers could not be hired. Opponents like the congressman, claimed that if better wages were paid Americans would be doing the jobs, and as long as there were immigrants who would work for low wages, there was little reason for employers to pay more.
He and President George W. Bush appreciated the vakue and importance of immigration, but most other Republicans did not.
Vivek Wadhwa is an American technology entrepreneur and academic. He is Distinguished Fellow & Adjunct Professor at Carnegie Mellon's School of Engineering at Silicon Valley and Distinguished Fellow at the Labor and Worklife Program at Harvard Law School. He is also author of books Your Happiness Was Hacked: Why Tech Is Winning the Battle to Control Your Brain—and How to Fight Back, Driver in the Driverless Car, Innovating Women: The Changing Face of Technology, and Immigrant Exodus.
