Re: AZ's own Gabrielle Giffords votes to increase foreign wo…

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Author: David Huerta
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To: Main PLUG discussion list
Subject: Re: AZ's own Gabrielle Giffords votes to increase foreign work visas
>
> "The Innovation Employment Act, introduced by Representative Gabrielle
> Giffords, an Arizona Democrat, late Thursday, would increase the cap
> in H-1B visas from 65,000 a year to 130,000 a year. In addition, there
> would be no cap on H-1B applications for foreign graduate students
> attending U.S. colleges and studying science, technology and related
> fields. Currently, there's a 20,000-a-year cap on visas for graduate
> students in all fields."



From what I've heard, ASU had 0 American citizens begin a graduate
program in Computer Science in the fall of 2007. (I wanted to make it
1, but the GRE math protion thought otherwise). It seems to me that
the specific case for lifting quotas for foreign graduate students
will help bolster the *existance* of graduate and even undergraduate
computer science education in Arizona, which would, without foreign
students, probably atrophy itself out of existance for lack of
popularity and tuition revenue.

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david [.dh] huerta
devrylinux.org
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