Locking out Academics

Bruce Schiener (the guru of cryptography) has written a piece on how tight visa controls are hurting academics in the US. It's become so difficult for academics to come to the US in the past three years that people are simply scheduling conferences elsewhere. Many students are opting to do their graduate studies in other countries such as Canada due to visa hassles. As any researcher will tell you, only a small percentage of all published papers are written solely by American researchers - the graduate college in most schools would not exist if it were not for the foreign students who come here for research. The great technological achievements in this country are partly due to the contributions from countless brilliant minds who have come here from all over the globe - it will America's loss to see them go elsewhere!