Fronteras, October 12, 2011 –

 

“…Close to 700,000 international students study on U.S. college campuses; most head home after they graduate. But the federal government wants to keep highly educated foreign students here, especially those in the so-called STEM fields: science, technology, engineering and math.
 

“…Lynn Shotwell, executive director of the American Council on International Personnel, a group of Fortune 500 companies and research centers that lobbies for immigration reform, said her members often can’t recruit the top talent from U.S. universities.

‘The problem we have right now in the U.S. immigration system is there just aren’t enough visas available,’ Shotwell said. ‘And even when there are visas available, the paperwork and the processing and the wait times can take many, many years.’
 

 “Anytime you start talking about one piece of the immigration system, it’s tough to try and fix that without trying to fix all the other pieces that are broken," Shotwell said. "But I think this is one area that is such a clear need to our economy that hopefully they’ll be able to carve this out and move this forward.”
 

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