Over time, Einstein’s presence at a major U.S. Fleeing Nazi Germany, Albert Einstein, already a world-famous scientist, arrived in New York aboard the SS Westernland in 1933 at the invitation of Princeton’s newly created Institute for Advanced Study.
Had Stephen Miller been around in the early third of the 20 thcentury, he may not have welcomed another middle-aged Jewish refugee. Remembering that fact will be the key to competing with China, a nation that welcomes very few immigrants and is scrambling to lure its own emigres back home. New research shows it is immigration that has long sustained American hegemony in science and technology. There is no dearth of evidence to suggest that Miller’s policies were both shortsighted and counterproductive. But they wouldn’t have made it in 2017 were it up to the senior policy adviser to the new president and principal architect of his administration’s immigration policy, Stephen Miller, who has been quoted as saying, “ I would be happy if not a single refugee foot ever again touched American soil.” To a reporter’s question, he replied simply, “I’m here because I’m a refugee.” In the scrum, not many people had recognized Google cofounder Sergey Brin.īrin was only 6 when his family fled the Soviet Union to escape Jewish persecution. Lawyers and politicians had quickly joined ordinary citizens at the airport in raucously protesting the ban. The night before, America’s new president had peremptorily closed the borders to travelers and refugees from seven Muslim countries. Middle-aged, but still boyishly trim, casually dressed, a puffy jacket draped across his arm, he blended easily into the throng of protesters at SFO one January morning in 2017.
America’s economic and technological leadership rests on it in an increasingly bipolar world. To effectively compete, America must continue to attract and retain global talent in science and engineering, particularly foreign students.
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