The Best and The Brightest Talent

    Since President Obama mentioned that the U.S. cannot close its door for foreign students, who can bring much competitive advantages into the nation without mentioning H1-B issue, I consider that the President is likely to set those two issues apart at this moment. In my view, I don't see the relativity between letting foreign students to study in the U.S. and the demand of H-1B visa. In contrast, illegal labors are "the" problem that the U.S. government has to deal with insistently.

    The U.S. should be proud of the choices that foreign students have made were right due to the high quality of education environment and development. Many students in Taiwan are looking forward having education in this country, which has the best educational environment and fruitful social development. We foreign students came here with our dreams and hope one day we can bring the American experience back home to benefit our countries. In order to pursue higher and more modern quality of education, we'd rather spend much more money studying abroad and overcome the barrier of languages and homesickness than feel regret not to do it. We feel appreciated that the U.S. didn't block international students resulting from the 911 attacks because those hijackers were used to be educated in the U.S.

    I also agree with the President Obama's view of "the best and the brightest talent". Even though we'er not master what we're learning yet, at least we got more confidence that we're welcomed and the U.S. is taking advantages of us as well. However, not every American holds as positive attitude as Obama does. Most of international students are clear of the purpose why they're here. We do what we should do in the U.S. and we're not planning for staying here for squeezing local job opportunities. Though the unemployment rate is getting higher and higher, honesty, international students have nothing to do with it. The economic crisis affects globally, and we're also helping the society to find the way out through our hard work. The problem of illegal employment has to be solved to help those discouraged workers.

    Last, I understand that the rising tuition within universities in the U.S .The most important thing is that how do we use the education resources effectively to maximum our capacity in learning. As long as the U.S. still opens its door, I'll keep doing what I think is right and encouraging other students to study in the nation of freedom and liberty. Again, thanks President Obama for his objective and wise opinion.