Editorial
Bordering on Boundlessness
The irony of the American Dream is that you need money to make it come into full fruition. Not only do you need a few hundred dollars to process the visa process, but once here, you need the capital to get you started. Not to mention a reputable company/organization to sponsor your stay. Furthermore, you will also need money to transport yourself and pay for the roof over your head.
W.E.B DuBois’ cognitive dissonance, reiterated by Frantz Fanon, and several others have communicated that there are only two kinds of foreign [American] graduates; those that want to go home and be guilty of the American brain drain and those that stay here while pursuing a global gain; with the latter seen as selling out the continent.
However, international graduates continually have to straddle two worlds: due to being educated abroad, they face the challenge of being rendered “out of touch” with the issues from their home country and similarly, they never quite fit in in their expatriate environment because they are always considered foreign.
Foreign graduates often find themselves perpetual refugees with no destination. However, with that being said, the Unites States still depends on immigrant labor at all skills levels in order to keep the economy growing. Immigration reform should make it so that it seems less like bureaucratic warfare.
