a division that must be addressed, or more on the elon point of view, as it were;

I must admit that I did not see this new division coming. Is legal immigration a necessity, a means to cut operating costs and/or a symptom of our educational collapse? More issues, more divisions and no one is addressing the real problems or how to fix them.

IF we need to hire immigrants because we have a shortage of skilled and intellectual labor, we should address the causes.

1. Foreign labor is cheaper. Indonesian nurses, Indian technicians, and immigration lotteries will not solve the problem for America’s workforce. We all know the impact of dealing with call centers that were outsourced to foreign countries.
2. This problem has been ongoing. I noticed it in the nuclear industry in the early 1980’s. Indian “engineers” were cheap solutions for companies to charge high rates to their utility clients. Unfortunately for me, I was paid even less. The Indian engineer next to me earned the nickname “Spanky” since he did little work but stare into space. There were other foreign workers but the experience taught me a valuable lesson: life is not fair. I also learned that the better the quality of your work meant more work assigned as the lead engineers still had to meet deadlines.
3. I went back to college for electrical engineering in the 1990s at NC State. I was surprised at the number of engineering students from the Middle East.
4. When I went back for bioinformatics in the early 2000s, over 20% of the students were Oriental in this field. I learned that honor was severely lacking in these students.
5. One thing I did notice was the culture differences. Most of the students from outside of the United States had no sense of innovation or critical thinking skills. You could assign them a task that should have led them down a path for the next step. When given a task, they went from A to B, then would stop and ask for what to do next when C was the obvious next step.......more.........