The Immigration and Education Paradox

Immigration and Education Paradox

The President has recently promoted a new immigration law. English speaking and needed skills take priority. You may agree or disagree. But the pundits, always that crowd, have expanded the argument further – to education and immigration.

They say we are educating foreign nationals to have highly technical skills. Then, by law, they are required to return home. However, the USA is not producing a sufficient number of technical USA citizen grads to satisfy job openings. It need many, many more. The current push is to let foreign grads stay. Let them stay - they say. Let’s allow those well trained, educated, and able students to take jobs right here. Does this sound reasonable? Absolutely! No brainer, huh?

Not quite. By the requirement of law, the students to return home, the US has created a truly inexpensive and successful foreign policy program. Those educated students, back home, and become allies of everything USA. They become leaders in their own countries, and therefore mostly support friendship with the USA. Taking decades to reveal, evidence shows this, evidence shows such. Does this sound desirable? Of course. No brainer, huh?

This leaves us with a coin having two sides, both heads. Both are reasonable, desirable, and good - but conflicted. Not quite the no brainer anymore. How would you call it?

P.S. Over many, many years some of my best grad (math) students came from China and India

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