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More skilled immigrants are giving up their American dreams to pursue careers back home, raising concerns that the United States may lose its competitive edge in science, technology, and other fields.
"What was a trickle has become a flood,"
says Duke University's Vivek Wadhwa, who studies reverse immigration:
In the next five years, 100,000 immigrants will go back to India and 100,000 to China, countries that have had rapid economic growth.
For the first time in American history, the United States is experiencing the brain drain that other countries experienced.
Suren Dutia, CEO of TiE Global, a worldwide network of professionals who promote entrepreneurship, says the U.S. economy will suffer without these skilled workers.
"If the country is going to maintain the kind of economic well-being that we've enjoyed for many years, that requires having these incredibly gifted individuals who have been educated and trained by us,"
Wadhwa surveyed 1,203 Indian and Chinese immigrants who had worked or been educated here before returning to their homelands and found the exodus has less to do with the faltering United States economy than with our immigration process:
Multinational companies that belong to the American Council on International Personnel tell Executive Director Lynn Shotwell that skilled immigrants are discouraged by the immigration process, waiting up to a decade for permanent residency...
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