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From my own personal perspective, I know a brilliant young lady whose English is more or less perfect (nearly without any trace of accent) and who looks like she's from the US or at least Europe. Except to my utter surprise, she's from Jordan, and it's only her second year in the states. So for the fact that she's utterly brilliant (getting her Ph.D next year) and a wonderful person just to be around, and some other reasons, I want her sticking around in the US, and to that end, have been sending her any companies that came up on my radar to help her with her internship search. I hope she makes it to the highest places.

This doesn't make me cringe, though. ~~God~~ James Simons himself stated that Renaissance hires mostly foreign-born people, simply because there are very few Americans cut out for the job, which is why he started MfA.

So I don't think those with the merit* will have any more trouble finding work, with protectionism or not, simply because there aren't many natural-born citizens to compete with anyway.

*Merit includes being able to surpass the language barrier. No man or woman is an island.

<blockquote data-quote="IlyaKEightSix" data-source="post: 22439" data-attributes="member: 1135">From my own personal perspective, I know a brilliant young lady whose English is more or less perfect (nearly without any trace of accent) and who looks like she&#039;s from the US or at least Europe.&nbsp; Except to my utter surprise, she&#039;s from Jordan, and it&#039;s only her second year in the states.&nbsp; So for the fact that she&#039;s utterly brilliant (getting her Ph.D next year) and a wonderful person just to be around, and some other reasons, I want her sticking around in the US, and to that end, have been sending her any companies that came up on my radar to help her with her internship search.&nbsp; I hope she makes it to the highest places.This doesn&#039;t make me cringe, though.&nbsp; <s>God</s> James Simons himself stated that Renaissance hires mostly foreign-born people, simply because there are very few Americans cut out for the job, which is why he started MfA.So I don&#039;t think those with the merit* will have any more trouble finding work, with protectionism or not, simply because there aren&#039;t many natural-born citizens to compete with anyway.*Merit includes being able to surpass the language barrier.&nbsp; No man or woman is an island.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="IlyaKEightSix, post: 22439, member: 1135"] From my own personal perspective, I know a brilliant young lady whose English is more or less perfect (nearly without any trace of accent) and who looks like she's from the US or at least Europe. Except to my utter surprise, she's from Jordan, and it's only her second year in the states. So for the fact that she's utterly brilliant (getting her Ph.D next year) and a wonderful person just to be around, and some other reasons, I want her sticking around in the US, and to that end, have been sending her any companies that came up on my radar to help her with her internship search. I hope she makes it to the highest places. This doesn't make me cringe, though. [s]God[/s] James Simons himself stated that Renaissance hires mostly foreign-born people, simply because there are very few Americans cut out for the job, which is why he started MfA. So I don't think those with the merit* will have any more trouble finding work, with protectionism or not, simply because there aren't many natural-born citizens to compete with anyway. *Merit includes being able to surpass the language barrier. No man or woman is an island. [/QUOTE]

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