Labor Dept imports labor to solve non-existent STEM shortage

Labor Department Calls for More Foreign Labor

The Part of the Obama Admin. That’s Supposed to Help U.S. Workers Is Calling for More Foreign Labor | TheBlaze.com

The Obama administration’s Department of Labor, which is supposed to represent the needs of U.S. workers, said Monday that the government needs to find ways to get more skilled foreign workers into the country.

“We also need to fix our broken immigration system to encourage more highly educated foreign-born workers to come to the United States,” Deputy Secretary of Labor Chris Lu said in a blog post. “If we are to compete in a global economy, we must continue to attract and retain the world’s brightest minds.”

Thomas E. Perez, right, runs the Labor Department, which said on Monday that the U.S. needs more foreign workers. (AFP/Getty Images/Brendan Smialowski)

Study Finds No Shortage of High-Tech Workers in U.S.
A Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) report released on Tuesday ahead of a panel on the subject at the National Press Club found that from 2007-2012, STEM employment averaged "averaged only 105,000 jobs annually" while the U.S. admitted about 129,000 immigrants with STEM degrees. That means "the number of new immigrants with STEM degrees admitted each year is by itself higher than the total growth in STEM employment." During that time period, the number of U.S.-born STEM graduates grew by an average of 115,00 a year. 

Steven Camarota - What STEM Shortage?
Advertisement Reports by the Economic Policy Institute (EPI), the RAND Corporation, the Urban Institute, and the National Research Council have all found no evidence that STEM workers are in short supply. After looking at evidence from the EPI study, PBS entitled its story on the report “The Bogus High-Tech Worker Shortage: How Guest Workers Lower U.S. Wages.” This is PBS, mind you, which is as likely to report skeptically on immigration as it is to report skeptically on taxpayer subsidies for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

RAND’s analysis looked backward in time and found, “Despite recurring concerns about potential shortages of STEM personnel . . . we did not find evidence that such shortages have existed at least since 1990, nor that they are on the horizon.”