A day or two ago, I heard a program on NPR (can't find which one, unfortunately--spent about 20 minutes looking and gave up)

talking about how Asian immigrants are interested in and are taking the high tech back room jobs that a lot of Americans aren't interested in. That Americans who go into high tech, who have spent the time and money getting educated in that area, do so wanting the "front room" jobs like in marketing, and aren't interested in doing things like crunching code in cubicles 10 hours a day.  That this is the crux of many complaints you read/hear from corporations about not being able to fill certain necessary jobs with Americans. That it isn't so much about pay, it's about the type of jobs Americans educated in the area want and train for, whereas Asian foreigners trained in this "back room" stuff are precisely looking for and happy with jobs in the same.

I  have noticed a somewhat similar divide in medicine, where the behind the scenes MD's like anesthesiologists and radiologists so often seem to be Asian immigrants.

As for rich immigrant CEO's, both Asian and Hispanic, there are some, but the ones I've read of aren't taking other CEOs' jobs; they are creating their own and jobs for others at the same time:

Moving to U.S. and Amassing a Fortune, No English Needed
By Kirk Semple, New York Times, November 8, 2011

[....] Mr. Sanchez has lived the great American success story. He turned a business selling tortillas on the street into a $19 million food manufacturing empire that threaded together the Mexican diaspora from coast to coast and reached back into Mexico itself.

Mr. Sanchez is part of a small class of immigrants who arrived in the United States with nothing and, despite speaking little or no English, became remarkably prosperous. And while generations of immigrants have thrived despite language barriers, technology, these days, has made it easier for such entrepreneurs to attain considerable affluence.

Many have rooted their businesses in big cities with immigrant populations large enough to insulate them from everyday situations that demand English. After gaining traction in their own communities, they have used the tools of modern communication, transportation and commerce to tap far-flung resources and exploit markets in similar enclaves around the country and the world.

“The entire market is Hispanic,” Mr. Sanchez said of his business. “You don’t need English.” A deal, he said, is only a cheap long-distance phone call or a few key strokes on the computer away. “All in Spanish,” he added [....]

In New York City, successful non-English-speaking entrepreneurs like Mr. Sanchez have emerged from the largest immigrant populations, including those from China, South Korea and Spanish-speaking countries.

Among them is Zhang Yulong, 39, who emigrated from China in 1994 and now presides over a $30-million-a-year cellphone accessories empire in New York with 45 employees.

Kim Ki Chol, 59, who arrived in the United States from South Korea in 1981, opened a clothing accessories store in Brooklyn and went on to become a successful retailer, real estate investor and civic leader in the region’s Korean diaspora.

In the United States in 2010, 4.5 million income-earning adults who were heads of households spoke English “not well” or “not at all,” according to the Census Bureau; of those, about 35,500 had household incomes of more than $200,000 a year

Nancy Foner, a sociology professor at the City University of New York who has written widely on immigration, said it was clear that modern technology had made a big difference in the ability of immigrant entrepreneurs with poor or no English skills to expand their companies nationally and globally. [....]

And white people tend to make generalizations.

Asians actually vote more D than R. The Pew study confirms this both in political affiliation and recent voting trends.

White people are actually more conservative than Asians, if politics has anything to do with it.

Nine Seventy Nine or Fight!

If we are gonna seal off border.

Fuggedaboudit ya canuck, NYC sports fans are way ahead of yas, the salsa dancer and the Linsanity are so yesterday, in da trash can, the new "black" is a born-again Christian white guy who wanted to be an English professor when he grew up (but looks kinda like the Kenny Powers character on HBO)....

It's weird, as it compares a people descend from a single Iberian country with unrelated peoples with unrelated language from a wide swath of the largest continent & islands (includes Filipino, Thai, Vietnamese, Indian, Chinese, Japan - presumably Burma, Malay, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Bhutan, Laos & Nepal count as well)

And at 5.8% of total population for these 20 or more countries/ethnic groups, it's a resounding "who cares?" Trying to create a unified demographic out of all of these is pretty silly, but Pew does its best anyway. "Asians love their mothers - and rice". There, it's established. Funny they didn't ask about Euthanasia as long as they were on a roll.

The survey doesn't mention Central Asians (Kazakhs, Kyrgyzs, Tajiks, Turkmens or Uzbeks), or even Russians. I could believe that there are very few Central Asian immigrants. Russian accents are quite numerous around my community pool, though, so I wonder if most of them are Euro-Russians.