A recent opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal examined the US immigration policy on tracking foreign national scientists and researchers. The opinion piece was a harsh criticism of the current policy on foreign national students, stating “[i]t would be hard to invent a policy more counterproductive to our national interest.”
Comprehensive Immigration Reform has been pushed back to next year – or later. The longer it is delayed, the longer that the system will be broken, and the longer the US will be losing the best and brightest to the rest of the world. Let’s hope that change comes soon.