Still, some argue that immigrants are not only unneeded for U.S. leadership in high tech, but also drag us back. The 30 percent of workers in Silicon Valley or Microsoft were hired only as cheap labor to raise profits, not because they had any talent, or so they say. To such people, it doesn't seem to matter that IBM, Intel and Microsoft with all their immigrants are responsible for US domination of 90 percent of the world market for microprocessors, operating systems and mainframe computers. It doesn't seem to matter that Time magazine recognized Grove for helping advance civilization beyond the industrial age. All these companies are only good for making profits.
Grove is just a manager.
The dominant Intel x86 and Windows are not innovative and are abominations which reduce productivity. They made the same arguments being made today that America was being flooded with inferior Chinese laborers who lowered wages and displaced white workers. It has never taken me, a 40 year-old native, more than four weeks to find a job, but I do get rejected when I don't have what they need. When Microsoft only hires 2 percent of applicants, that fact is called proof of a surplus of programmers. Let's say, though, that we did bar all new immigrants from high-tech.