An astounding 70 percent of grad students in the US in electrical engineering and 63 percent in computer science probably the two disciplines most important to winning the future are foreign-born. Nineteen percent of the overall STEM workforce in the USis foreign-born; focus just on the PhD-level workforce, and that numberrises to 43 percent. Since 1901, just about half of allphysics, chemistry, and medicine Nobel Prizeshave gone to Americans, and about a third of those winnerswere foreign-born, a figure that hasrisen in recent decades. Its really not too much to suggest that if all foreign scientists and science students were deported tomorrow, US science would grind to a halt.
An astounding 70 percent of grad students in the US in electrical engineering and 63 percent in computer science probably the two disciplines most important to winning the future are foreign-born. Nineteen percent of the overall STEM workforce in the USis foreign-born; focus just on the PhD-level workforce, and that numberrises to 43 percent. Since 1901, just about half of allphysics, chemistry, and medicine Nobel Prizeshave gone to Americans, and about a third of those winnerswere foreign-born, a figure that hasrisen in recent decades. Its really not too much to suggest that if all foreign scientists and science students were deported tomorrow, US science would grind to a halt.