An Evaluation of the Foreign Student Program

• The INS has little control over the number and type of students being admitted;
• The program is littered with corruption and fraud;
• American taxpayers subsidize a sizable part of the tuition of foreign students;
• The benefits from the program are greatly exaggerated, and the program may well generate a net economic loss for the country;
• The program is best viewed as yet another redistribution program, shifting wealth away from native workers and taxpayers and redistributing it to universities and foreigners.
By George Borjas