I don’t think that immigration reform is going to solve anything. Europe was one of the places to find easy immigrants that has dried up for the US. Until somew

I don’t think that immigration reform is going to solve anything. Europe was one of the places to find easy immigrants that has dried up for the US. Until somewhere in the 90s it was advantages for a skilled, Western European to move to the US. It might have been advantageous for Eastern Europeans for a while longer afterwards (if they where willing to forgo visiting their family back home). But that is over. The only place the US is still getting qualified immigrants from for STEM fields are India and China. The Chinese are often pass information along back to China and if India manages some of their mega projects that might dry up too. The US never looked in Africa and I think that China and the EU better situated for recruiting there. The US is only situated well for siphoning off potential tech talent in Latin America and I don’t see much happening there. Every country around the world knows that brain drain is bad and how a well educated workers, especially in STEM fields can help build up a country. To assume that America is still so enticing that “just” reforming immigration will help the US stay ahead is bullshit. The long term solution needs to be training people at home and yes, the US is failing at that too right now. Maybe time to look at Latin American STEM immigration as the quick fix and better home grown education as the long therm fix.