Tom Friedman Gets It Right (Again)

Tom Friedman continues his urgent appeal to make the U.S. more open to foreign intellectuals:

"We should be stapling a green card to the diploma of any foreign student who earns an advanced degree at any U.S. university, and we should be ending all H-1B visa restrictions on knowledge workers who want to come here. They would invent many more jobs than they would supplant. The world's best brains are on sale. Let's buy more!"

Hear, hear!^* Why not do this? I'd love to better understand any objection to this idea. Is it just the wrath of economic isolationists who think that we can solve all our woes by exclusively buying and hiring American? 

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Comments

[adora]

That's pretty much what Canada and Australia do. Any respectable university graduates could easily apply for immigration (with high successful rate) after a year of holding a stable job.