Too bad we can't trick the feds into thinking he is a migrant from a third-world country with no education or job skills because then they'd pull out all the stops to make sure that they are accommodated and that they stay here.For years, United States policy makers have been debating the idea of granting green cards to foreigners with science doctorates. The cell biologist Xiao-Wei Chen, at the University of Michigan, is no longer waiting for them to decide.
Mr. Chen, whose work on cholesterol metabolism helped him win a job competition this year at the National Institutes of Health, is instead making plans to return home to China and his undergraduate institution, Peking University.
And don't kid yourself into thinking this is all some kind of conk plot to drive down wages for high-skilled labor. People like Chen are making very good money and it's not like there are plenty of American-born people with science degrees who can replace a person with his skill level. This is only going to start happening more as China has more resources available to pay scientists.
