Screen the Muslim/Arabs; keep the garbage out, dammit!
I agree. Engineering and computer science programs are overrun by foreign grad students. I think a few more of us locals should get those slots.
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Hani Hanjour did not attend school after entering on a student visa in December 2000.It's a very good thing that fewer foreign grad students are enrolling in the US. It means a safer, more secure America.Mohamed Atta failed to present a proper M-1 (vocational school) visa when he entered the United States in January 2001 and had previously overstayed his tourist visa.
Jeez, do you think that the universities might have to stop raising tuition 20% a year now that they can't artificially keep demand high?
The less the merrier.
My wife is a naturalized US citizen from Taiwan (she's been here for 21 years). Almost all her friends and family still live in Taiwan. She has told me repeatedly that, since 9/11, it is much more difficult to get long-term visas to visit the US, especially student visas. This has caused some difficulty for her family members, who, when they visit here, would often stay for a couple of months at a time. We have a niece who is planning on staying with us next year so she can attend school and she is already having trouble getting a student visa, but she can't come over on a regular visa since they don't do the 6-month ones anymore, only 1 month at a time. Perhaps this is good for national security, but I wish the Feds would be a bit more selective. I've yet to hear about a significant threat to our national security coming to our shores from visiting Taiwanese.
Give the opportunities to Americans, and the aid and student jobs likewise.
We're sending the right message to those abroad: should crack down on terrorists at home if you wish to send their young people here to study. GOOD NEWS.
Plus, one thing this figure suggests is that we ARE SUCCESSFULLY EXCLUDING TERRORISTS who use being a student as their "legend" with our strict visa procedures. Many of the students from rotten Commie and islamonazi countries were all in a snit about it. Good!
"Dr. Germ," the woman scientist who did WMD development for Saddam Hussein, got her PhD in biochemistry from University of Missouri in Columbia, MO. Throw 'em all out, I say, unless their loyalty is spotless (i.e. make them pass the equivalent of a top secret security clearance, and pay the cost *themselves.*)