Academics locked out by tight visa controls

Adam Shostack adam at homeport.org
Mon Sep 20 10:50:18 EDT 2004


On Mon, Sep 20, 2004 at 10:03:57AM -0400, John Kelsey wrote:

| >Academics locked out by tight visa controls
| >U.S. SECURITY BLOCKS FREE EXCHANGE OF IDEAS
| >By Bruce Schneier
| 
| I guess I've been surprised this issue hasn't seen a lot more
| discussion.  It takes nothing more than to look at the names of the
| people doing PhDs and postdocs in any technical field to figure out
| that a lot of them are at least of Chinese, Indian, Arab, Iranian,
| Russian, etc., ancestry.  And only a little more time to find out that
| a lot of them are not citizens, and have a lot of hassles with respect
| to living and working here.  What do you suppose happens to the US
| lead in high-tech, when we *stop* drawing in some large fraction of
| the smartest, hardest-working thousandth of a percent of mankind?   

Those people don't get a vote.  The politicians in question will be
dead and gone before the slope of the curve changes anything.  Why
*would* we discuss it?

Adam the cynic.

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