This study has found that 20% of our immigrants who were practicing lawyers, teachers, nurses, doctors, pharmacists, and many more highly skilled professions are working here as construction workers, waiters, cooks, landscapers. A great waste for our country. We need these people to be working in their own professions. In many cases, the biggest thing they need is help with English. DP
20% With Degrees In Unskilled Jobs or Jobless, Study Finds
By N.C. Aizenman, Washington Post Staff Writer
washingtonpost.com: One in five college-educated immigrants in the United States is unemployed or working in an unskilled job such as a dishwasher, fast-food restaurant cashier or security guard, depriving the U.S. economy of the full potential of more than 1.3 million foreign-born workers, according to a study released yesterday.
Immigrants in the Washington area are among the most educated in the country, and the plight of those who are underemployed is familiar to anyone who has gotten a ride from D.C. cabdriver with an engineering degree from Ethiopia or had a car parked by a garage attendant who used to practice law in El Salvador. However, the report by the Washington-based Migration Policy Institute is the first to quantify the extent of the problem.
Highly educated Latin American and African immigrants fare far worse in the job market than Europeans or Asians, the authors said. Almost half of recently arrived college-educated Latin Americans hold unskilled jobs, as do more than one-third of those who have been in the country for more than 10 years. The problem persists even when only immigrants who are in the country legally are considered.
Construction worker Grego Pineda, who fled politically motivated death threats in his native El Salvador seven years ago, said his difficulty learning to speak polished English is the only obstacle to resuming his former career in law and banking. Pineda, 45, who has won international literary prizes for his essays in Spanish, was once on the board of a public bank and was the owner of a flourishing law practice, a house in one of the San Salvador's most exclusive neighborhoods and a vacation place by the beach.
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It is shocking to know each year Us immigration attracts people from foreign countries through green card lottery with no commitment or obligation to provide them an employment or any assistance to adjust them in a new country. People leave their countries, their families and their professional jobs in the hope for better. When they reach in US the most they get unskilled labor jobs. Immigrants with professional, college and master degrees in their own countries end up working as door man, cab driver, school bus driver, cashier in 711 and so on. There is no program or a state policy that could help or guide these new immigrants to gain an access to a professional employment according their educational backgrounds. Due to absence of these programs a lot of talent gets waist in immigrant population and builds up frustration and disappointment on their part. At the end it seems clear that US is exploiting poorer population of the world in order to get a cheap labor with no benefits or commitment to help to their better future.
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