Steve Forbes has raised a contentious issue by accusing the Bush administration of doing the U.S. economy "long term harm by not reforming post-9/11 immigration and visa policies" that inflict "repeated, humiliating hassles" on foreign visitors, students and business people.
Our high-tech companies are vitally dependent on immigrant brainpower. Our schools are not turning out the numbers of American scientists and technologists that we so badly need.In years past most foreign-born graduate students remained in the U.S. after completing their studies. Now they are in a minority--a declining one at that.
