A new immigration policy is preventing foreign students from using their skills in the US

Published October 4, 2018 5:36pm ET



Unemployment is down, the economy is growing and companies have a need for recently graduated skilled workers. Some of those recent hires are foreign students who have applied for H-1B visas. But now, thanks to a change in Trump’s immigration policy, they can’t start working. That’s bad for the economy, bad for the workers, and a terrible policy for the country.

Previously, recent graduates who had applied for an H1-B visa could stay in the country and start working. The new policy changes mean that those individuals can stay, but they can’t work — if they do, they could be barred from the U.S. long-term.

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