Monday, June 10, 2013

Immigration and the ‘Best and Brightest’

One of the selling points for comprehensive immigration reform is the claimed benefits of granting a special kind of green card to all foreign students earning advanced degrees in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). This argument is being made by corporate leaders, including those from the high-tech sector, who argue that it is a smart economic move for the nation.
In the latest issue of Barron’s, Norm Matloff, a professor of computer science at the University of California at Davis, offers a serious critique of the proposal presently working its way through the U.S. Senate.

spectator.org/archives/2013/06/10/immigration-and-the-best-and-b 

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