alt Hacker NewsWhat do you count as American CS grads? A lot of H-1B holders have a degree from an American school. (Edit) If you hold an American CS degree, aren't you an American CS grad?
If you close that pipeline, you'll lose those students, and then you have to find more funding, because international students usually subsidize local students.
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I feel for all human beings, but US education should be first and foremost directed towards helping US citizens. That's not racist, that's just common sense. We haven't even been doing that here! We're failing as a nation because shitty short-term profits always supersede the creation of long-term prosperity.
At one of my grad school classes, the prof could have taught the class in Chinese had it not been for me in there. And that was in the late 1990s.
While I disagree with GP’s premise, there’s no sense in which H1B visa holders are American. It’s a nonimmigrant visa. They are required to specifically disavow any intention of becoming Americans or else the visa can be revoked.
It wasn't until recently that I found out 40% of students at top colleges were not even American! I'm not specifically against foreign students, but 40%?
That and the H1B issue and American's not having jobs at American companies. Something isn't right.