<p>One other measure of success of foreign-born scientists and engineers can be found at the Silicon Valley. Just go and looked at the composition of employee in those high tech companies. In fact, in Applied Materials, over half of the engineers, engineering managers, directors are from India, China, Europe, Japan, Korea.
The phenomenon is primarily due to the fact that brightest student in our high school today do not choose science and technology as their career. Most of them (my S included) are leaning towards Medical, IB and other profession that makes better return on their education investment.</p>