[extropy-chat] Researchers and students in America

[Mike Lorrey]

If there is such a visa clamp down, why is it that the pre-existing
H1-B quota was exhausted on the first day of the fiscal year?

--- Amara Graps <amara at amara.com> wrote:

> 
> Some of this is old and already discussed (here in the past), but I
> think it is useful to see it presented in one place by a foreign
> (nonUS) newspaper, and for another perspective.
> 
> 
> http://www.corriere.it/english/editoriali/Gaggi/23_11_04.shtml
> 
> Researchers and students in America
> 
> "Non-domestic companies are no longer sourcing supplies in the United
> States, or taking part in trade fairs and other events, because their
> executives cannot obtain an entry visa. American manufacturers are
> accusing the government of preventing them from recruiting overseas
> specialists - engineers and researchers in particular - who are hard
> to find in the US. The number of foreign students enrolling at
> American universities has fallen for the first time in 30 years
> because of visa procedures that resemble a frustrating, months-long
> obstacle course, often ending in a refusal. This could well be the
> most burdensome legacy of 9/11. America is spending billions on
> antiterrorism technology, from bomb-sniffing robots to X-rays that
> reveal the contents of a truck. But the real price of shielding
> America, which started with the Patriot Act passed just after the
> World Trade Center attack, is being paid elsewhere, in the visa
> clampdown-induced loss of economic activity, already in excess of 30
> billion dollars. There is another, unquantifiable but potentially
> enormous, loss in the reduced inflow of non-domestic brainpower,
> which
> for decades has been the engine driving the country's main scientific
> and industrial successes."
> 
> [full article follows, see the link above]
> 
> Amara
> 
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Mike Lorrey
Vice-Chair, 2nd District, Libertarian Party of NH
"Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom.
It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves."
                                      -William Pitt (1759-1806) 
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