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.