Re: "Exporting Jobs – Green card hassles help drive our brightest overseas," Friday Editorials.

If Europe and Asia are luring our foreign graduates with "offers of higher pay," doesn't that tell you something? Could it be that U.S. employers are OK with having indentured servants for a 10-year period? Then they need a larger quota to replace them?

A recent survey of top universities found that 10 years out of college, business and liberal arts majors earned more than engineers. This is an indicator of excess supply. Could it be all of those foreign-citizen graduates being thrown on the market depress salaries?

There is nothing wrong with advancing the cause of citizenship, but it is unlikely to solve the problem you imagine. At best, it will make foreign citizen graduates more independent, encouraging them to demand greater compensation, thereby boosting salaries for domestic graduates as well. This is certainly not the outcome employers would wish.

John H. Ortego, Carrollton