We need the immigrants to continue our melting pot image!!

Rethinking my research topic from budget cuts in education, I think I may also like to write a research paper on peoples of different cultures and backgrounds.Being half Italian and half Ecuadorian, I have much diversity in my life and am very proud of it. As I was searching for articles related on cultures, and immigration I found an article in the Mercury News titled, "Immigrant Chinese, Indian tech workers increasingly return home." I was intrigued by the title, about why and what were the reasons these particular ethnic groups are deciding and have left back to their countries. I read strangely how the Indians and Chinese would make more money in jobs in their home countries. I couldn't grasp that concept of them having better jobs at home, when the whole reason immigrants for centuries have be emigrating to the U.S has been for better jobs, stable futures, and most importantly, having money to send back home to their loved ones. I guess the tables have turned and the U.S is no longer a country of success and prosperity. A lot of that lack of success and prosperity is as we all know is the difficult economic times as a nation we are facing: job losses and no job security.
Vivek Wadwha, a researcher on immigration and labor issues at Duke and Harvard told SJMN why many immigrants are returning back home, "Having worked in the U.S., they have skills that make them more valuable back home.They go back home and live like kings."
Wow, the U.S is truly at it's downfall, if with all respect, going back to other countries, people are "living like kings." The U.S is in dire need to maintain its skilled workers to maintain competition and remain one of the top leading countries. Vish Mishra, president of The Indus Entrepreneurs group, a Silicon Valley-based organization for tech executives with roots in the Indus region mentions a way to get immigrants who have left to come back, "In fact, nearly 40 percent of the Indians and 53.8 percent of the Chinese said they'd seriously consider an offer to return to an equivalent job in the United States." Basically, all the U.S has to do is offer or find a way to offer better jobs than the competing countries are doing... it is as simple as that...but not exactly...

I enjoyed how the article was wraped up with a few words from Wadwha on the ecomony, "we're shooting ourselves in the foot by taking our economic recovery — which is our most skilled people — and shipping 'em off to India and China." Basically, loosing all these skilled working immigrants recovering from our struggling economy will be difficult...This is a scarey thought!! We need the immigrants to continue our melting pot image!