Here is the point.....Dr. Raza already wanted to come to America. It isn't like the State Department went to Iran on a random doctor hunt and looked him up and said, "We'll give you X if you come to America"....We don't. you are equating their wanting to immigrate to America with an active recruitment of their profession.How many Americans are going to leave their suburban tract house and go pick lettuce for a couple weeks, then pick strawberries somewhere else for a couple weeks, then pick potatoes for a couple weeks, etc?What's good about legal immigration when we already have an oversupply of labor in this country.
Ask a farmer how many Americans he is turning away so he can hire illegals.
Yeah, right. BWA-HA-HA-HA!
What about all the legal immigrants who are doctors or comparable professionals?
Why do we have to import that sort of labor?
Weeeellll, not exactly. I have worked for hospitals in various capacities for a number of years. One of those hospitals was a small hospital in a small town in central Kansas where I worked in radiology. As the hospital expanded along with its patient load, our one resident radiologist was unable to handle the whole load. We were unable to persuade a qualified American radiologist to join us in a small prairie town hospital that couldn't pay quite as much as a good radiologist can usually command. Dr. Raza, an Iranian, did want to come to the USA and because we sponsored his immigration, he did wind up in our department. And as I was leaving that hospital for another job, we were expecting Dr. Obando from Argentina, also recruited as an immigrant doctor and willing to guarantee our hospital a few years.
I honestly don't know if he applied or was recruited. I do know they looked for months for an American doctor before they went after Dr. Raza. He did have impeccable credentials though and he was very good.