Linked by David Adams on Wed 6th Apr 2005 20:21 UTC
This month's Wired magazine has a terriffic story about a team of students from a high school in an economically depressed part of Phoenix, who took part in an underwater-robot building competition against students from the top universities in the country -- and won. All of the students are undocumented Mexican immigrants who don't qualify for most financial aid or even in-state tuition, and therefore can't afford to attend college, in the US, Mexico, or anywhere. When I read the article I determined to try to do something to help give these kids their chance, and I was delighted to discover that their faculty advisor has set up a scholarship fund for them, and I'm about to donate some money to help. I'd like to encourage OSNews readers to read the story, and if they feel the same way, to donate.
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I was thinking the same thing, with the student visa thing. One of the great tragedies of the US' post 9/11 paranoia is that the best and the brightest students from other lands are finding it much harder to come study in American universities. Allowing foreign students to come study here has been an immesurable boon to US industry and academia. Sure, we shouldn't necessarily encourage or reward flouting immigration law, but the country always has and always will have an incentive to encourage the great minds of the world to study and even stay here.
But even taking national interest out of the picture, I'd just like to see these kids have the chance to benefit society to the full extent, even if it were by giving them the means to attend one of the excellent Mexican or other Latin American universities.