Thousands of H-1B visa holders have been at the limit since the re-election of Donald Trump as American president. Despite the support of the president for the VISA H-1B program, strict visa regulations await those who seek to enter the United States in accordance with Trump’s decree on the citizenship of the dated January 20.
In the midst of these events which led to a general debate on the importance of the Visa H-1B program, the industrialist Harsh Goenka shared an old video of the famous Neo-American physicist Michio Kaku Schooling People explaining why the H-1B is the secret weapon of America.
“America has a secret weapon. This secret weapon is the H-1B. Without H-1B, the scientific establishment of this country would collapse. Forget Google or Silicon Valley. There would be no valley Silicon without the H-1B.
Kaku, a vocal defender of immigrant policies, continues by saying that almost 50% of all doctoral students in the United States were born abroad. “You realize that in the United States, 50% of all doctoral candidates were born abroad. In my system, one of the largest in the United States, 100% of doctoral students were born abroad. The United States is the suction of the magnet in all the brains of the world. T tell me science is in the engine of prosperity.
Citing the Wall Street Journal, the scientist adds: “Look, there are no Americans who can take these jobs. It is at the highest level of high technology. They (H-1B visa holders) do not take No jobs of the Americans.
Who is Kaku?
Michio Kaku is an American physicist, scientific communicator, futureologist and writer of popularity. Born in San Jose, California, he is the co-founder of String Field Theory. His parents were both second-generation Japanese Americans.
He holds the Chair Henry Semat and the teacher in theoretical physics at the City College in New York (Cuny), where he has taught for over 25 years. He was also a guest professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, as well as in New York University (NYU).