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The Role of Education in Immigration America has the best universities in the world. According to the U.S. News and World Report that ranks the Best Global Universities, 8 of the top 10 are in the United States. Some of the brightest minds from around the world come to the U.S. to attend a university, imbibe the American values, and enter the job market. STEM, IT, and the American Economy Losing foreign national students goes beyond burdening U.S. higher education, there are economic consequences. It is no secret that foreign national students pursue STEM education at higher rates than their American counterparts. Companies recruit the brightest minds from U.S. universities to boost growth and innovation. However, the STEM fields are growing so quickly that hiring Americans and recruiting graduates from U.S. universities is not enough. Foreign talent allows us to fill vital jobs necessary to facilitate innovation and growth. When U.S. Employers Have Unfilled Jobs Every year, since this new administration has come in, the government finds new ways to reduce the number of people entering the U.S. However, making these high-skilled visas tougher to obtain for American companies forces jobs out of the U.S. When companies leave, they take all the other jobs along with them. It is not just that foreign nationals can no longer enter - it also means that the job of the manager or the salesperson or the marketer is gone too. Competition has made our country great. A competitive labor market is a key to hiring the best people. It is a lot easier to tear something down than to build it, and we have built the strongest economy in the world. We can destroy this accomplishment by making it really, really hard to work here. The conversation surrounding immigration is wrong right now. The message is, "Let's find anecdotal evidence of a bad thing that somebody from another country did so that we can cast a net over everybody else that is not from our nation." That is just the wrong way to look at it, and the evidence does not even merit it. [Read the full article] [Watch The Immigration Show]