Isn't it high time to kick out all foreign students from U.S. colleges?

Question

U.S. taxpayers give BILLIONS of dollars to U.S. universities every year to educate their kids but a lot of that money goes to educate foreigners that will take that education that the American taxpayer paid for and go back to their countries just to take away jobs from Americans.

Answer 1

Yes, and in light of recent events, I believe the US should close all their institutions to foreign students.

How about we take care of our own for a change?

Answer 2

Education is for everyone and if a university has the opportunity to bring foreign talent that would enhance their talent pool then why not?

Plenty of foreigners pay several times the local american rates for their education at schools and universities so they are definitely NOT free-loading as you seem to imply.

The ones that are given academic scholarships deserve it. There are many athletes who are given sports scholarships to top schools just for "having fun". Is that fair?

Little Billy from an inner city school in NYC can't afford to go to Harvard even if he has better grades than the varsity star from Iowa who is offered a free ride. Is that fair?

I would also like to see your reference for the "billions" of taxpayer dollars that are used to directly educate foreigners.

Foreigners who are landed immigrants in this country definitely pay taxes, so I'm assuming you're NOT including them. If you are, then this discussion is over and you are racially biased and you better cover up the back of your neck.

If not, then you need to clarify the "facts" of the matter.

Answer 3

Spoken like a true xenophobe!

1] Campus massacres, by and large are perpetrated by american citizens and native americans. research some of the school and college massacres prior to this.

2] Psychopathic behaviour has nothing to do with nationality. its a mental sickness, which is individualistic.

This was an answer ,if your problem with foreigners has anything to do with the virginia tech shootout.

To answer your other concerns, regarding the monetary aspect,

A majority of foreign students finance their education themselves. so the USA is actually gaining a lot monetarily via international admissions.

The international students who DO receive financial aid, which are very few by the way, normally enroll for doctoral programs.
These students spend a minimun of 5-7 years in the US, contributing hugely to science and technological developments in the US, and making up for the deficit in technical manpower.

And lastly, this is known as globalisation...ever heard of it?
Look it up.

Answer 4

Cho was NOT in fact an American Citizen, he was just a legalized resident.

REGARDLESS, I think what you might be forgetting here are two key points:

1. The Statue of Liberty clearly states:
"Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me.
I lift my lamp beside the golden door."

I think kids trying to educate themselves to the fullest extent falls within that category.

2. We should be PROUD that people WANT to come to this country to get a higher education...that's more than I can say for some of the kids that were BORN AND RAISED here! Can we only blame it on ourselves and our continually increasing LAZY society that a good portion of our younger population has no desire to continue their education past high school? Meanwhile, all across the world, people are fighting for the slim hope that MAYBE they can get into the States to study? Even for just one year!

Answer 5

Why? Taxpayers do not give billions of dollars every year to US universities and manyt foreign students pay their own way. You are being xenophobic. If you really want to stop jobs from leaving the US, petition Congress to stop outsourcing jobs to foreign countries or to penalize US companies that outsource to save money.

Answer 6

Of course another way to look at it is that those foreigners come here, learn American values and take them back to their own countries. By exporting our way of life to their countries, we make the world safer for all of us. As they become wealthier, they also spend more money on American goods -- making us better off in the long run.

So -- what do you want -- a beat down, pissed off world that will attack us or a world made up of our friends?

It isn't us or them -- it is us AND them.

Learn something about economics before you try to make an argument based on economics.

Answer 7

No, that would be stupid. That would be discrimination and that is not what the U.S. is about, and technically, everyone is a foreigner except Native Americans and in most colleges, they make up less than 5% of the student body.

Answer 8

Ok, so the shooter was korean. So what? It could as well been a white person.

The VTech shooting was a freak massacre. Kicking out foreign students won't solve that problem, gun control laws will.

Unfortunately, politicians will talk about this, people will whine about it, books will rant about it but NOTHING will be done to it because the right to bear arms is an amendment.

Answer 9

First of all, the murderer at VA Tech was an American citizen.

Foreign students, when they are educated in North America, pay more than twice what local students pay. You think you are paying for their education? Think again. They are paying for your education, not the other way around.

Answer 10

well the foriegner pay wayyyyy more money for they education than the locals pay they pay double ur price so if it wasn't for them how will ur education be founded ask urself that question an let me no

Answer 11

That is so sad. We live on ONE planet in case you hadn't noticed.