Our view: Congratulations, graduate. Now leave the USA.

Our universities educate thousands of foreign students every year and then our country won't allow them to stay and use their education by working for U.S. companies. So they take their wonderful education to another country and compete with us. This does not sound like a smart plan. - - Donna Poisl

Limits on skilled-immigrant visas hurt the nation’s competitiveness.

by Opinion editorial board

Around this time each year, thousands of foreign students graduate with science and engineering degrees from U.S. universities. Many are eager to stay in America and contribute to the U.S. economy.

So does the United States welcome them with open arms? No, the government tells thousands of them to hit the road — and take their sought-after skills and brainpower to countries and companies that compete with the USA.

Talk about a self-defeating immigration policy.

Mind you, these immigrants are not seeking to sneak across the border and stay here illegally. They are educated students, many with professional or masters' degrees or doctorates, who want to play by the rules. U.S. companies want to hire them. But they get painted with the same broad anti-immigration brush that Congress has used to make the nation's legal immigration system a morass of quotas, caps and unconscionable waits.
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