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WE SHOULD STAPLE GREEN CARDS TO HIGH-SKILLED IMMIGRANTS’ VISAS

by Paolo Mastrangelo and Liam deClive-Lowe, opinion contributors - 05/20/23 6:00
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Spotlight over concerns about China’s growing economic and technological
competition has loomed for too long now. Last summer, lawmakers made significant
strides to spur economic growth and competitiveness when they passed the
bipartisan CHIPS and Science Act. They clocked out at the end of the session,
however, failing to address the lack of workers America needs to effectively
implement this bill. With no action taken this Congress, the issue continues to
compound, and national security leaders are now calling on lawmakers to
investigate immigration bottlenecks out of concerns about their impact on our
country’s global competitiveness.

The quick and commonsense solution to deliver on the promises of CHIPS and
address worries about our national security is to allow highly-skilled
immigrants already here in the U.S. to stay and work in our technology and
manufacturing industries. This sort of legal immigration reform would be a
prescription to some of our country’s biggest headaches, such as China’s
aggression against its competitors over workforce talent needed to boost the
country’s economic competitiveness and America’s big tech companies’
monopolization of the limited share of highly skilled immigrants we’re allowing
to stay stateside.



Considering the U.S. has been attracting and assimilating the world’s top talent
for decades, we should feel obligated to ensure they are recruited to our
workforce once educated at our universities. Over the past few decades,
technology and manufacturing-driven businesses across the country have become
driving forces in our economy. As they’ve grown, the demand for workers
specializing in STEM has increased. Knowing this, more talent specializing in
science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) would serve as a B-12
shot to our economy and global competitiveness.

Despite efforts to educate Americans in these fields, it’s no secret that
we lack the workforce to meet the labor needs of the technology and national
security sector without help from talent born outside our borders. However,
foreign-born workers have stepped up to the plate and now makeup almost a
quarter of all STEM workers in the U.S.

While this percentage of foreign-born talent working in STEM fields is
impressive, you’d think it would be a much larger piece of the pie, considering
almost half of all masters and doctorates awarded in STEM fields went to
international students. This is largely because unaddressed bottlenecks in the
current legal immigration system threaten to deport this talent, taking the
value they could bring to our labor force with them. In fact, they are taking
their American-developed expertise to other pro-immigration countries that are
now capitalizing on talent.

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As you’d expect, one of our biggest contenders for these workers is China, as
they are ramping up their advanced technology sectors to compete directly with
U.S. interests. In fact, Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leaders’ fears of the
U.S. fixing its legal immigration system should say all we need to know — they
are exploiting loopholes we refuse to fix, and unless we start using green cards
more aggressively alongside the diplomas of the highly qualified foreign-born
graduate students, China will succeed in recruiting them and will gain a larger
lead as our most serious technological and geopolitical competitor. 

The monopolization of highly skilled workers educated in the U.S. doesn’t just
originate abroad but is also an issue proliferated by tech giants. While we
should support America’s big tech companies using their talent to advance
cutting-edge ideas and technologies to bolster our own position in the tech
race, their promise of sponsorships to immigrants has resulted in a brain drain
from the small and medium size STEM-focused industries that can’t counter that
offer. Currently, the pathway to staying in the U.S. says, “get a sponsor or get
out.” Unless a foreign worker is able to find a sponsor for their H-1B visas
quickly, they must leave the U.S., and with big tech companies able to get
a majority of their visa sponsor applications approved, it’s only natural that
they attract more graduate students. However, reforming the system would
encourage these workers to disseminate to small to mid-sized companies in STEM
fields instead. Our local technology and manufacturing businesses and startups
would greatly benefit economically from their intelligence and backgrounds.

Democrats and Republicans have an opportunity with green card reform to kill two
birds with one stone. Both of their bases support this measure, too. A
2023 Morning Consult survey found that 76 percent of voters supported highly
skilled workers staying in the U.S., drawing 85 percent of Democrats’ support
and 68 percent of Republicans.


How originalism supports affirmative action The ballad of Jimmy Lai is the
anthem of Hong Kong’s demise

With clear signs of bipartisan support, it should be a no-brainer to write into
law that foreign workers with advanced STEM degrees applying for green cards are
exempt from greed card limits and backlogs. This proposal would not degrade the
necessary thorough processes needed to become a citizen but rather directly
address bottlenecks in the immigration system and open the doors for talented
international graduates to stay and work in the U.S.

If Congress can get one thing done this year, I think we’ve found something that
should appease both sides with little room for argument.

Liam deClive-Lowe and Paolo Mastrangelo are the co-founders & co-presidents
of American Policy Ventures, a new project which will actively work to support
members of Congress working to find bipartisan solutions to our nation’s most
pressing issues.

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