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"America's research universities are the envy on the world," he said. "We have 90 percent of the top researchers in the world. We also have a bizarre policy to
by nkassis 16y ago
"America's research universities are the envy on the world," he said. "We have 90 percent of the top researchers in the world. We also have a bizarre policy to train people and then kick them out by not giving them visas, which makes no sense at all."
I think he has a very good point there. Even more so for graduate students. If they've been here for 4+ years, and are skilled it should be very easy for them to get permanent residency.
- jfb 16y agoUS immigration policy is particularly inept. As a citizen, I had only the vaguest sense that this was so, but having started a company with two immigrants, the depths of the stupidity have become manifestly clear. Personally, I'm largely in favor of the free migration of labor, but regardless of one's beliefs w/r/t immigration -- and there are principled arguments for all sorts of positions on this issue, I feel -- nobody can defend the pig's breakfast that we currently have. And nobody's talking about fixing it, either -- all the public conversation about immigration is about Mexico, which is surely important, but hardly the only thing what needs fixing.