The U.S. presidential election is less than two weeks away, and immigration hasn’t figured very prominently in the last-mile campaigning of U.S. President Barack Obama and his rival, Republican candidate Mitt Romney. Instead, issues like jobs, the economy, and relations with China have dominated.
India hasn’t come up either, apart from in a few attack ads on outsourcing aimed at Mr. Romney.
But with a new book that looks at data on entrepreneurship and immigration in the U.S., Vivek Wadhwa, an adviser to students and faculty at Duke University’s engineering management program, hopes to return high-skilled visa policy to the agenda. In “The Immigrant Exodus,” Mr. Wadhwa argues that Americans should be very concerned by the increasing difficulties that foreign information technology workers and scientists face in getting green cards.
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