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Others have commented on why Howard should be well known if you live here.

The whole point of the United States government existing is, supposedly, for the betterment of its citizens. From time to time, its worth debating from first principles whether or not existing immigration policy - or any policy, really - actually does this. Given the unemployment rate for recent STEM grads in the US, I think it's perfectly reasonable to ask some hard questions about whether or not some of these visa schemes are actually doing good in the general sense, and not just in the specific sense of "this AI start up that's really just a ChatGPT wrapper has access to more bodies, so their runway is longer".