[ConservativeMind]

“They do not usually compete with Americans for jobs because they often are pioneering new technology and manufacturing methods and there is no one else in the world who has their knowledge and skills . Thus they are more often than not adding to our economic growth and building good paying jobs for native Americans, not stealing jobs from native Americans”

That is absolute nonsense. Both I, and my wife, can attest to foreign students at our respective schools as being the worst examples of cheaters. I even had two foreign friends in my program tell me they had to cheat to be equal with people like me, because I knew English better than they did.

I went to a top school, as did my wife.

[rdcbn1]

With all due respect, I also held a pretty responsible position at “ a good school” back in the day.

We recruited the best of the best at grad level world wide.

That gave us a roughly 50-50 American to foreign student ratio

All of our people were far above average

I was responsible for academic integrity and we did not have cheaters

I personally helped shepherd a good number of foreign PhD students through the H1B program for the reasons the H1B program was originally intended for-to give outstanding foreign students with academic credentials and skills otherwise unavailable a path residency and citizenship so they could contribute their unique skill sets to benefit America

That was long enough ago to prove that virtually all of them went on to become American citizens who have made major positive contributions to America