The Christian Science Monitor
September 16, 2012
Some in Congress want to give special visas to foreign-born graduates of American universities with advanced degrees in science, technology, engineering, and math. But critics say it could come at the expense of diversity in legal immigration.
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“These students have the ability to start a company that creates jobs or come up with an invention that could jump-start a whole new industry,” said Representative [Lamar] Smith [R-Texas], a frequent critic of the administration’s immigration policy, in a statement. “In a global economy, we cannot afford to educate these foreign graduates in the US and then send them back home to work for our competitors.”
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