GOP immigration bill keeps the well-educated

This bill is great, but they want to drop the diversity lottery in exchange for it. Both programs should be kept, we need educated immigrants and we also need diversity.   - - Donna Poisl

by Stephen Dinan

Trying to beat Democrats to the punch on the first post-election immigration bill, House Republicans have scheduled a vote later this week on a business-friendly proposal to grant green cards to foreigners who earn high-tech doctoral degrees from U.S. universities.

It would offer as many as 55,000 immigrant visas a year to people in science, technology, engineering and math fields, and would free up those visas by eliminating the diversity visa lottery, which offers green cards based on random chance.

“We cannot afford to educate these foreign graduates in the U.S. and then send them back home to work for our competitors,” said House Judiciary Committee Chairman Lamar Smith, the Texas Republican who wrote the bill. “For America to remain the world’s economic leader, we must have access to the world’s best talent.”
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