Foreign Students From Top US colleges Should Stay On, Help Us, Says Trump

The students who were planning to pursue higher education in the US but delayed their plans due to the strict US immigration policies can now rejoice as there has been a positive turn of events with regards to the US immigration policy. The US President Donald Trump has made it clear that he welcomes the foreign graduates from top US colleges to stay and work in the country

Regretting the fact that many highly qualified foreign students are leaving the US after studying from the top US universities, the US President Donald Trump has said that he wants meritorious students to stay in America and contribute to the growth of US-based companies.

While addressing a press conference on Friday, Trump mentioned that the United States is “losing out on great minds” because of its “ridiculous” immigration policy.

He restated that he wants to fix the legal immigration system to attract more meritorious students to stay and work in the US.

During a news conference in Washington, Trump said, “We have all these companies coming in. We need great people. But we want them to come in on a merit basis, and they have to come in on a merit basis. They can't come in the way they've been coming in for years."

"I get calls from the great tech companies, and they're saying we don't allow people at the top of their class, at the best schools in the country, we don't allow them to stay in our country," he said.

"So, they end up going back to China and Japan and so many other countries all over the world, and we don't keep them. They get educated at our finest schools, and then we don't allow them, through a various set of circumstances, to have any guarantees of staying. So we lose out on great minds. We can't do that," he said.

Trump was shedding light upon the difficulties faced by foreign students after completing their studies in the US and mentioned that it can be quite hard for them to  stay and work in the country. He also said that this issue was discussed with Democratic Congressional leadership during a meeting at the White House on Friday.

Constant pressure from top IT companies like Google, Microsoft etc. has also contributed to the change in the mindset of the Trump administration towards the existing US immigration policies.

This marks great news for Indian students who are currently studying in the US or planning to do so in the future. This positive turn of events will encourage more Indian students to pursue higher education in the US. Due to the growing intolerance and cold attitude of the Trump government during the past two years, Indian students had started looking for other options in the form of countries like Australia and Canada for fulfilling their dreams of receiving top-quality education and settling abroad.

"We discussed that with the Democrats, and I think they agree.  We're working on that. But we don't want to lose our great companies because we have a ridiculous policy that we won't accept smart people. So, call it politically correct or not, but we have to let these great, brilliant companies have the smartest people in the world," Trump said.

He said if somebody wants to seek asylum, there's a way to do that. "There are legal ways to come to this country, and legal immigration has made this country great."

Recounting the incident of the killing of California's Indian-origin police officer Ronil "Ron" Singh, allegedly by an illegal immigrant, Trump reiterated the importance of having a "secure border" to keep "Americans safe" and curb illegal immigration.

"America lets in over a million people every single year. By far, the most generous nation in the world. And yet, we have laws that need to be followed to keep Americans safe and to protect the integrity of a system where, right now, there are millions of people who are waiting in line to come to America to seek the American Dream, like Officer Singh did when he sought his chance at the American Dream," he said.

"That dream was taken. It was taken because we don't have a secure border. We can't let this continue," he said.

Trump also spoke with the widow and colleagues of the Indian-origin police officer, who was fatally shot on December 26. The accused has been identified as an illegal immigrant named Gustavo Perez Arriaga, who allegedly shot officer Singh at a traffic signal when he was planning to flee to his native Mexico.

"...A wonderful, young police officer -- I spoke to his wife yesterday -- was shot, viciously shot, for simply stopping a person that came over the border illegally. Got shot. Killed. We don't want that happening," he said.

An ongoing shutdown over proposed funding for a US–Mexico border wall, has left more than 800,000 federal workers furloughed or working without pay since December 22. But the Democrats have so far refused to meet Trump’s demand.

GMAT Palm Vein Biometric Identification

The quality of education that we impart to our youth and the priority at which we rate it contributes largely to the formation of the attitudes they carry over into public life.

The value and functionality of any educational system lie in its ability to actualize the goals of education. In educational systems, the world over, the examination process makes the difference. The goals of national educational systems and indeed national development become like a mirage if examination ethics is not encouraged and instituted. Till date, examinations still remain the best tool for an objective assessment and evaluation of what learners have achieved after a period of schooling. Hence, any situation that undermines examinations poses a great threat to the validity and reliability of the educational system.

The phenomenon of examination malpractice is influenced by many factors. , lack of confidence as a result of inadequate preparation, peer influence, societal influence, parental support and poor facilities in schools are some of the factors responsible for examination malpractices. Writing in the same vein, many research scholars identified school programmes, teaching-learning environment, the teacher, the student, over the value of certificates, and parental support as some factors responsible for examination malpractice in the contemporary educational system.

To avoid all this the GMAT has come out with a technique called PVBI (Palm Vein Biometric Identification).

Palm vein recognition is a biometric authentication method based on the unique patterns of veins in the palms of people’s hands.

Palm vein recognition systems, like many other biometric technologies, capture an image of a target, acquire and process image data and compare it to a stored record for that individual.

Palm vein scanning systems, like those for finger vein ID, use a technology based on the use of near-infrared rays and the way hemoglobin in the veins reacts to them. The blood's hemoglobin is oxygenated in the lungs and the arteries then carry the oxygenated blood to deliver oxygen to tissues throughout the body. The veins carry deoxygenated blood back to the heart. 

A palm scanner illuminates the palm with near-infrared light, which is absorbed by the deoxidized hemoglobin flowing through the veins. Deoxygenated hemoglobin absorbs more light, reducing the ability of the veins to reflect the light back and causing them to appear as a black pattern that is captured as an image by the system’s camera. The raw data for that image is then processed and compared to a stored record for the individual in question.

Advantages of PVBI

Vascular matching systems rely on the uniqueness of vein patterns in each person, which differ more markedly from one individual to another than the patterns of fingerprints and palm prints. Because the veins are located beneath the skin’s surface and, furthermore, the scans rely on blood flowing through living humans, palm vein scans are virtually impossible to counterfeit. The systems are typically contactless, which makes them more hygienic than touch-based systems. That consideration is particularly important for healthcare environments and high-traffic venues such as supermarkets. Palm scanners are also more protective of individual privacy than some biometric technologies, such as facial recognition, because a sample cannot usually be captured without the person’s knowledge or consent. One exception to that rule, however, is a healthcare context, where a palm scan could enable identification of an unconscious individual.