Inside Higher Ed reports on a bipartisan immigration reform plan proposed by Senators Charles Schumer (D-NY) and Lindsey Graham (R-SC), which would grant green cards to science, technology, engineering, and math students from outside the US who receive a doctoral or master's degree here. In a Washington Post editorial, Schumer and Graham say, "Ensuring economic prosperity requires attracting the world's best and brightest. It makes no sense to educate the world's future inventors and entrepreneurs and then force them to leave when they are able to contribute to our economy."
Inside Higher Ed acknowledges the hurdles this plan will surely face, but says that "the involvement of a leading Republican in the plan gave some hope that this one might receive more consideration."