In 1961 the program was modified by the FulbrightHays Act. Public Law 87256. the Mutual Educational and Cultural Exchange Act of 1961.. It has been alleged by some that the exchange visitor program has been used as a back door immigration route. Others charge that it is contributing to the "brain drain." robbing the underdeveloped countries of their sorely needed medical. scientific. and technical skills. Still others claim that the exchange visitor program is nothing but a recruitment device by which hospitals and medical institutions obtain low pay staff members thus releasing U.S. doctors and nurses for lucrative private practice.
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