Colorado’s left-wing Governor, Jared Polis, says it is “dumb” to oppose the H-1B program that delivers thousands of tuition-paying foreign graduates into the careers needed by well-trained Colorado graduates.
Polis told CNN’s Kaitlin Collins on December 26:
Look, we have world-class universities here, University of Colorado at Boulder [and] Colorado State University. Students from across the world come here. And one of the stupidest things we do as a nation is when they get their degree, or their graduate degree, it could be a PhD in physics, in engineering, we literally say, ‘You’re not allowed to work in this country, you have to go somewhere else.
Polis added:
Guess what? In a global economy, the jobs follow them, back to India, back to China. It hurts our economy, hurts job creation. And it’s one of the dumbest things that we do.
Polis also urged Vivek Ramaswamy and Elon Musk to continue speaking in favor of…
