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Let brainy foreign grads stay

Few issues are more divisive or difficult to tackle than immigration reform. But a key point from President Barack Obama?s speech on the touchy topic Tuesday in El Paso, Texas, deserves wide support and quick action in Congress. Obama called for allowing more of the brainy and creative foreign students studying at American universities to stay in the United States after graduation. UW-Madison alone had more than 4,000 international students on campus during the last school year. And more than half of those students are earning advanced degrees.