Imported raw files open in PS as JPEG

I want my raw files to remain raw files when I import them into Photoshop.  My raw files automatically open up into JPEG files.  How do I stop this from happening.
Thank you

I’m not very experienced with Adobe Camera RAW (and by the way there’s a Forum for that specifically), but what you describe sounds implausible to me.
If one opens a RAW file with ACR one produces a psd file which one certainly can save as a jpg, but it is not »opened« as a jpg.
Anyway one can set ACR to open images as Smart Objects, thus maintaining them as RAW-data in a psd file.
But maybe I’m misunderstanding you.

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