Strengthening and expanding America’s high-skilled immigration program would be a good way to pull the Karikós of the future into the U.S., where they could cook up the next life-saving breakthrough. Doubling the H-1B visa cap, especially while raising the average wage for visa holders, could be transformative for American science and technology,52 Neufeld said. “We’d have more, and more meaningful, inventions, which would increase productivity, and make the US as a whole richer.”
