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Studying in the U.S. Should Not Guarantee a Green Card

There are better ways to correct the dysfunction of our current immigration system

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There should be sharp limits placed on the number of F-1 and similar student visas instead of the current uncapped admission level. Even if a foreign student were paying out-of-state rates (most do not!) there is still a huge taxpayer-funded subsidy as tuition provides only a tiny fraction of the true cost of providing postsecondary education. Taxpayer funds should be focused on American citizens. Only the truly "best and brightest" should be admitted from overseas - and it should be on the basis of criteria immune to cheating. Unfortunately, many students in the developing world live in cultures where one must cheat in order to get ahead.

Dr. Gene Nelson of CA 8:48PM May 25, 2012

I agree that studying in the US should not guarantee a green card, however, we should make it easier for high-tech people and entrepreneurs to become permanent residents.

High-skill/Startup visa reform and E-verify should be used as bargaining chips to legalize the 11 million suffering immigrants who have toiled in the US economy for years or decades and cannot catch a break. NO PIECEMEAL REFORM.

Emma of NY 2:35PM May 25, 2012

NO- the taxpayers waste a good sum of money on Pell grants and taxes to support a public universities while they stream in esl foreign nurses who begin nursing school at age 16 and are only in it for the money. End the H1b visa program you will not only save the money wasted to administer it our unemployment Insurance costs will plummet.

oldnewgradRN of CA 2:25PM May 25, 2012

Guess what the taxpayers wasted a good sum of money on Pell grants and taxes to support a public university so I could get a useless nursing degree while they stream in esl foreign nurses who begin nursing school at age 16 and are only in it for the money. And of course my time and money was wasted too. End the H1b visa program you will not only save the money wasted to administer it our unemployment Insurance costs will plummet.

oldnewgradRN of CA 2:22PM May 25, 2012

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