James Surowiecki wants US immigration policy to shift away from prioritizing family members and instead emphasize attracting and retaining skilled workers from abroad, particularly those from India and China:
In 1990, the number of employment-based permanent visas was capped at a hundred and forty thousand a year. Astonishingly, that number hasn’t changed since, even though the U.S. economy is now sixty-six per cent bigger, and, with the rise of India and China, the supply of global talent has grown sharply. We also cap the visa allocation for each country, regardless of size, at seven per cent of the total number of visas, so only a fraction of the applications from China and India get approved.
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