Immigration for Innovation: How to Attract the World's Best Talent While Ensuring America Remains the Land of Opportunity for All

The United States is a nation of immigrant entrepreneurs. Today, immigrants who come to the U.S. to study at our universities and then go to work at our leading companies contribute directly and immediately to our global economic competitiveness.

Yet despite the importance of such immigrants to the nation's economic success in the increasingly competitive global economy, our current high-skilled immigration system is a two-fold failure: Arbitrary restrictions prevent American companies from effectively tapping the full potential of this talent pool, while inadequate safeguards fail to prevent against wage depression and worker mistreatment. 

This paper digs deeper into the structural deficiencies and enforcement shortcomings in our high-skilled immigration system and offers a number of legislative solutions designed to:

1. Target employer fraud and abuse of immigrant laborers.
2. Enhance worker mobility for immigrants.
3. Establish market-based mechanism to set H-1B levels for high-skilled immigrants.
4. Raise green card caps and streamline process for all immigrants.
5. Promote entrepreneurship with new visa program.
6. Strengthen recruitment requirements for companies.
7. Restrict job shops that import temporary immigrant trainees and then export American jobs.

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