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Title: Projected Numbers of Foreign Computer and Engineering Workers Under the Senate's Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act (S.2611)

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Publication Year: 2006

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Abstract: This report presents projections of the foreign-born computing and engineering (C&E)workforce that recent Senate legislation could admit in the next one, two, five, and tenyears. Most public controversy has focused on the Comprehensive Immigration ReformActs (S.2611) process for resident undocumented aliens (passed last May 25, 2006). Butthere also are numerous reforms to highly skilled admissions. The projections suggestthat the legislation could admit an immigrant computing and engineering workforce thatis just more than 5 times greater than todays levels of admission. And the projection ofimmigrants under S.2611 exceeds the total foreign-born labor force in C&E that isconsistent with projections of future employment demand by the Bureau of LaborStatistics. The legislation could admit foreign computing and engineering workers innumbers much greater than historical trends or casual assumptions about futureemployment.

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Authors: Lowell, B L.

Publisher: Georgetown University

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Labor Force and Occupational Structure, Migration and Immigration

Countries: United States