Visas for the best and brightest

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President Trump issued an executive order on Tuesday to curb abuses of the H-1B visa program for high-skilled guest workers. He shouldn’t stop there.

He should now work with Congress to overhaul the program fundamentally, turning it from a lottery routinely used to avoid hiring Americans into a system that really will welcome and attract the best and brightest people from abroad. This is something Congress can do, as bipartisan support for the concept already exists.

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