[kwisatzh]

The US should staple a Greencard to all PhDs and Masters students in the STEM fields. Most grad students have some support of funding (NSF/NIH etc) and it makes sense for these students to work here and pay off the funding instead of letting them leave the country or have them be stuck in a sub-optimal situation, being tethered to one employee.

[dominotw]

>The US should staple a Greencard to all PhDs and Masters students in the STEM fields.

No thats horrible. There are tons of "universities" in USA which will give you a masters degree for a given amount of money. I can only imagine how much worse the education scam will get with stuff like greenCards attached to degrees.

[jldugger]

You can already buy your way into the US with an HB-5.

[yetanotheracc]

Just restrict the scheme to the top n (n <= 50) schools according to, say, ARWU.

[dominotw]

what about the brilliant self taught programmers? Not all PHD's have skills/talent that employers are looking for. There are already enough unemployed theoretical math/astronomy pdhs.