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I don't understand where you get these claims. It's not like white people are just marketing while pakis are just doing research. Immigrants are getting all sorts of jobs (see all the indians in trumpland / on the right), not just technical ones. See table 8 here (you need to ctrlf table 8 then click the link) - "Asians" do all sorts of jobs. They're overrepresented in stem stuff, sure, eg (baseline: 6.4) "category - Computer and mathematical occupations" (23), "Medical scientists" (37). But they're still overrepresented in finance and marketing, if a bit less - "Market research analysts and marketing specialists" (8), "Financial and investment analysts" (21), "Gambling services workers" (25), "Business operations specialists" (11.3). And for every occupation they're specialized in, whites are still a majority - even in the most stark one, medical scientists, whites are 58.7.
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Doesn't make sense. Whites/Americans never stopped doing 'boring technical stuff', they're still doing more than half of it. (I think OP's "It is no exaggeration to say that most of STEM innovation in US academia is now being carried out by foreign-born people" is exaggerated - probably not too much than half is done by non-whites, some of whom were native-born).
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