Congratulations America. We educate millions of foreign students, give them the foundation to be innovators and entrepreneurs, than, because our inept handling of immigration reform is in permanent limbo, they go home.
Once there, they start the companies that challenge our industries here.
This needs fixed, and quickly.
We also need to finally address our attitude problem towards immigrants. When we lived in Oklahoma, after 9/11 the Air Force ROTC goon-in-charge liked to march his cadets in full uniform, gear, and guns up the hill through the family housing areas - where most of the international students lived.
Some of these families came from countries where the soldiers are the cops. And whatever pass for justice wasn't interested in fairness, legality, or the fate of the common man. Kids were yanked inside by terrified parents. The local campus police, to their credit, did everything they could to stop this behavior.
In many cases, the damaged was done. This didn't happen before 9/11. This wasn't a necessary task. The head officer actually bragged about what he was doing.
You just don't need to change the laws to let folks know they can and should stay and make their dreams come true here. You also need to tell bigots that we ALL came from somewhere else and a person's religion, gender, melanin tone, or whatever else they want to separate us by do not matter.
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