Skilled immigration is a national security priority

A joint blog post by Noah and Minn Kim on America's need for a national skilled immigration strategy.

This blog post is co-authored by Noah Smith and Minn Kim. Minn is the founder and CEO of Lighthouse, an immigration startup supporting the world's top technologists. She's also a former venture capitalist in AI, robotics working with technical talent globally. Most discussions of immigration focus on the asylum seekers entering the U.S. illegally through the southwestern border. But there’s a second immigration issue that’s even more important, yet tends to fly under the radar. This is the issue of skilled immigration – the process by which the U.S. enlarges and replenishes its talent pool…

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