It seems to me that our immigration policy has it completely backwards: We're incapable of preventing the flow of cheap, unskilled laborers willing to take jobs Americans don't want, but quite effective at keeping out educated immigrants who can fill jobs for which too many Americans are unqualified.
This is a result of crackdowns in the wake of 9/11 designed to keep suspected terrorists out of the country. Yet a terrorist could enter the country just as easily as a Mexican migrant worker, while an Asian engineer or Indian computer programmer faces a bureaucratic maze when trying to enter the country.
Part of our historical competitive advantage vis-a-vis the rest of the world has been our ability to attract the earth's best and brightest. I'm afraid our loss will be our competitors' gain.
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