Immigration Issue: Foreign Students Struggle to Stay in U.S. After College

[Liberal_in_LA]

http://www.politicsdaily.com/2010/07/31/international-students-struggle-to-stay-in-u-s-after-graduation/

Immigration Issue: Foreign Students Struggle to Stay in U.S. After College: Video Report

The controversy surrounding Arizona's new border control law has immigration policy in the spotlight. While it is impossible to ignore the estimated 12 million undocumented workers in the United States, it is relatively easy to forget a completely different sector of foreign workers anxiously waiting for reform: the thousands of international students who come to the United States each year to study at the nation's top universities. While student visas allow graduates to stay in the United States and work for up to 18 months after earning a degree, obtaining a green card or H-1 work visa is not easy.

A recent report by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development revealed that many countries around the world are easing immigration restrictions for highly skilled foreigners. The goal is to attract top talent from around the world to power domestic economies. This trend toward looser regulation for well-educated immigrants has not reached the United States. Click play below to watch a video report on the issue and the situations of several foreign students:

http://www.politicsdaily.com/2010/07/31/international-students-struggle-to-stay-in-u-s-after-graduation/

[FreakinDJ]

1. H1B was invented to lower American Worker's Wages

I have No Pitty for their plight

While I acknowledge their own country is all fucked up and a shit hole to live in. The reason they were offered advanced degrees in some of the finest educational institutions in the world was so they could go back home and HELP OUT THEIR FELLOW COUNTRYMRN

This is all about the WHATS IN IT FOR ME

[stray cat]

4. Skip the H1B and give them a green card

[FreakinDJ]

6. No Thanks - Ever seen the Immigration laws in their country

Activists blast Mexico's immigration law

TULTITLN, Mexico — Arizona's new law forcing local police to take a greater role in enforcing immigration law has caused a lot of criticism from Mexico, the largest single source of illegal immigrants in the United States.

But in Mexico, illegal immigrants receive terrible treatment from corrupt Mexican authorities, say people involved in the system.And Mexico has a law that is no different from Arizona's that empowers local police to check the immigration documents of people suspected of not being in the country legally.

In one six-month period from September 2008 through February 2009, at least 9,758 migrants were kidnapped and held for ransom in Mexico — 91 of them with the direct participation of Mexican police, a report by the National Human Rights Commission said. Other migrants are routinely stopped and shaken down for bribes, it said.

A separate survey conducted during one month in 2008 at 10 migrant shelters showed Mexican authorities were behind migrant attacks in 35 of 240 cases, or 15%.

In 2008, Mexico softened the punishment for illegal immigrants, from a maximum 10 years in prison to a maximum fine of $461. Most detainees are taken to detention centers and put on buses for home.

Mexican law calls for six to 12 years of prison and up to $46,000 in fines for anyone who shelters or transports illegal immigrants. The Supreme Court ruled in 2008 that the law applies only to people who do it for money.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2010-05-25-mexico-migrants_N.htm

The FACTs are a horrible thing to waste

[Jack_DeLeon]

8. I concur.

[Obamanaut]

2. Why would they want to remain? They must not have read the threads

about how terrible it is here in the US. How it isn't the 'land of the free' and if we think it is we have our heads in an orifice, that this is now a third world country.

Why would they want to stay here?

[virgogal]

3. + 1

[stray cat]

5. Maybe a DUer begging to leave the "terrible US" will change places with them

[ProgressiveProfessor]

7. Some of the more rabid DUers along those lines are foreign nationals

I figure its some sort of citizenship envy.....