We should make it easier. consistent with the requirements of national security. for foreign students to study in America. America has benefited from our ability to attract and to retain the best and brightest students from countries all over the world. Yet. since 9/11. many students are having a difficult time getting visas to study in America. Foreign applications to American graduate schools fell 28 percent in 2004. And enrollments of foreign students at all levels of college declined for the first time in 30 years. Foreign students are increasingly studying in Europe and elsewhere. We are losing a generation of foreign minds. minds that in another time would have come to our shores. These declines are due in large part to the difficulties foreign students now face in getting a visa to study in America. We must not compromise our security needs to host foreign businesspeople or students. But there must be ways to streamline visa procedures and otherwise lighten the burden to make it easier for foreigners to study and conduct business here. American universities and research institutes do much of the most innovative research in the world. But over the last 20 years.
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