TightWind is written by Kyle Baxter. Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.

The U.S. has a relatively large amount of highly-skilled people who come here to go to school and then find work. And after they do that, we put their life in limbo for years:

“I know this country better than my own country, and I still feel like an outsider,” said Mr. Sant, 35, who received his Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Dallas in 2006, and has been waiting for federal officials to approve his green card application for six years. “That’s the thing that bothers me.”

These are people we should not only accept with open arms, but should actively try to get to move to the U.S. And yet we are making it difficult for them to stay. We are not only hurting them, but we are hurting ourselves, too.