The green card system is already broken (this is pretty universally agreed). The notion that receiving a degree in the US—which often entails a large degree of cultural assimilation—doesn't give you a strong argument for being able to stay if you can find a job is archaic.

It's not like large tech companies don't know how to employee people in other countries, so I doubt this is going to impact hiring rates of foreign US-graduates, but rather keep more talent in the US (good for the US) and should have little to no effect on wages (again, if a tech company wants to hire them, they'll just hire them at a foreign office where they can obtain a working permit).

Non editorialized story:

> The "Keep STEM Talent Act" […] would exempt foreigners who graduate from American universities with master's or doctorates in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) fields from employer-sponsored green-card quotas.

Personally I’m in favor of this. Sucks for my own wallet, but compared to letting China claw back their best in brightest through thousand talents programs, this is better for America if you ask me. But I’m pretty pro immigration in the first place too.

> Now, Congress is poised to make those laid-off Americans' job hunts harder.

of course, the whole system is a modern times version of a softened sort of slavery

if/when your employeer firing you means your entire life gets uprooted (either have a job or get out of the country), these employees are incentivized to get abused lest their lives are forcibly changed.

this is also why large multinational companies like to swap people around and have them work in countries other than their original one: it gives the companies more power over the employee enabling the employee to provide ALL the productivity

> trying to sneak their "Keep STEM Talent Act" into the annual, must-pass defense spending bill as an amendment

Blows my mind that anyone in the US is ok with these take it or leave it combo bills

The green card system is insane. Anything to help students actually get a job here after graduating instead of leaving is only a good thing.