Diversion, and Racial Discrimination Against Asian Technology Professionals

American business interests face increasing difficulties as they attempt to compete against global technology-based industries. As the U.S. educational system produces interests face increasing difficulties as they attempt to compete fewer technology workers, many firms look to foreign countries such as India, China, or other Asian countries that have an abundance of skilled professionals. The U.S. Congress created the H-1B visa program in 1990 for educated skilled foreign workers, and manipulated the yearly cap on several occasions. Limits were as high as 195,000 as recently as 2003, but were reduced to 65,000 by 2009. The result of placing a low cap on available H-1B visas places a hardship both on domestic high-technology businesses, which cannot get sufficient quantities of desired workers to fill employment slots, but to the U.S. as well with reduced opportunities to recruit potential educated citizens. An unintended consequence of fewer H-1B visas produces a reduction of overall potential national brain gain optimization that could result from the spillover and agglomeration effects from the exchange of ideas in the marketplace (an effect that I refer to as brain blocking). Further