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'Fix the H-1B, don't kill it'

More important, the H-1B workers supply brain power. America, a nation of immigrants, cannot now suddenly turn its back to more immigrants, especially when many of these immigrants, Chinese and Indian , have contributed significantly to the nation. Indian and Chinese entrepreneurs alone head 29% of Silicon Valley's businesses, according to the University of California at Berkeley.

If the US stops granting visas to the students, allowing them to stay on in the US, it will mean only that America will be losing that much talent.

So, the issue is how to strike a balance and keep the people US needs, without alienating the rest. BusinessWeek suggests Congress should exempt foreign graduate students attending US universities from the annual cap.

Source: 'Fix the H-1B, don't kill it' - The Economic Times