How critically immigrants contribute to United States’ scientific and technological superiority over other countries was evident this week after it emerged that all six American recipients of 2016 Nobel Prizes announced so far are immigrants.
The success of immigrants in research and science institutions, on the other hand, is a testament to the favorable conditions that America provides to extraordinary talent from around the wold to advance their work, and in the process achieve the American dream.
The news has come as a timely reminder amid a heightened focus on the issue of immigration with Republican candidate Donald Trump speaking against immigrants from Mexico and Muslim countries. He has been suggesting that immigrants arre behind some of the challenges facing the United States in economic and security fields.
Trump has vowed to erect a wall along U.S.-Mexican border and ban entry of Muslims into the United States.
His latest tirade against Muslims came during the second debate with Democratic rival Hillary Clinton, when the businessman substituted word ban with “extreme vetting” and suggested Muslims were not cooperating with American security organizations to defeat homegrown extremism.
The Hill was the first to report on that all American winners of Nobel Award are immigrants.
The 2016 Nobel Prize winnerrs in Physics include F. Duncan M. Haldane, J. Michael Kosterlitz and David J. Thouless – all three born in the United Kingdom.
In Chemistry, American Sir J. Fraser Stoddart, originally from the U.K., shared the Nobel Prize with two Europeans) while Oliver Hart and Bengt Holmström, who are of British and Finnish descent respectively won the Nobel Prize in the field of economy.
Apart from institutions of higher learning, immigrants give America a unique leadership in an array of modern fields including medicine and information technology.
Immigrants significantly help the US economy and they do not take American jobs or low wages, a new study says, debunking several assumptions to the contrary being aired in the election year.
Last month, Views and News published a report a latest study that tells how immigrants significantly help the US economy and they do not take away American jobs or low wages.
The report debunked several anti-immigrant assumptions being aired in the election year.
“Immigration is integral to the nation’s economic growth. The inflow of labor supply has helped the United States avoid the problems facing other economies that have stagnated as a result of unfavorable demographics, particularly the effects of an aging workforce and reduced consumption by older residents,” the study by The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine said.
Pakistani Americans are among communities with thousands of extraordinary talented professionals working in various fields.
Recently, Nergis Mavalvala, 47, who was born in Karachi and started studying gravitational waves during her graduation at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), was one of the leading scientists to have persistently pursued the project in the United States.
