Agreed. At UIUC, about 1/2-2/3 of the engineering grad students were foreigners; about half the undergrads were foreigners as well. I think they added a lot to the program, and it would be nice if we could have them add to our country when they graduate.
At the very least, if you get a graduate degree in a hard science or engineering discipline, we should give you an automatic green card. If Lou Dobbs shows up and starts complaining, we can simply ask if he'd prefer we sent all of the Chinese nationals back to work for the communist government.
Disagree with this assessment. We arguably have the best post-secondary education system in the world, and if we limit the students that our schools can admit, it will make them less competitive against the IITs, TUMs, and Oxbridges of the world.
I think a bigger problem for many middle-class Americans is simply paying for a public school education, let alone paying for a top-notch private school.
Good point. What if we offer everyone in certain disciplines an automatic green card if unemployment is below, say, 6%?
