This was a relatively widespread opinion 20 years ago. I had Roy Blunt, Republican senator from Missouri at the time, come to talk to us, telling us that he thought a science Ph.D should come with a green card stapled to it. But the politics of immigration never let small bills through, as people wanted bigger ones, and the bigger ones always had things that would risk filibusters.

And we all know that the current US senate isn't anywhere near passing any reform, as nothing can hit 60, and if anything did, it would be immigration restrictions.

There was a time that the road was kind of easy: During the Clinton and early GW Bush years, the H1 limits were very high, so if you could find a job, you at least got on that train. It was a long wait if you didn't have a Ph.D, but it was extremely reliable. Not so much anymore.

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tns_admin 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> he thought a science Ph.D should come with a green card stapled to it

This will be goodhearted to hell in this day and age.

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blobbers 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

It's sad that our government can't pass a bill without it being a katamari ball.

One thing, discuss, vote.

No "hey if we give you this, you give us this." just simple "do most of us agree on this?" level politics.

That's real democracy, not the crap we have today.

	▲	marcosdumay 2 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		The nature of a congress is that every bill gets balanced with the interests of a majority of the people there.
	▲	xienze 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Well the popular argument is that it takes so long to pass any kind of bill that smaller bills would just mean more bills and a bigger backlog. I don't really buy that. The real reason is that it's easy to sneak stuff into a bill, so why not? That and trying to attack political opponents by joining something politically disastrous to <their side> to an otherwise uncontroversial bill.