College Presidents Praise Their Own Foreign-Born Inventors in Call for Immigration Reform

By Goldie Blumenstyk

Three quarters of the patents at top patent-producing American universities had at least one foreign-born inventor, a new report finds. And that has become the latest rallying point for the presidents of more than 100 major research universities, who this week urged Congress and the Obama administration to find a bipartisan fix for "antiquated" immigration laws that now force many American-trained scientists and engineers to leave the country after graduating, rather than stay on "to create