Of course the government has already done a good job of slashing away at their numbers, with their intellectually incoherent policy of including them in the (failed) attempt to
cap immigration numbers, even though the vast majority will go home at the end of their course, meaning they aren't properly immigrants at all.
Not exact matches
In the
immigration bill under consideration in Congress, the
number of H - 1B visas is proposed to be raised from 65,000 to 115,000, with escalators to rise until the
number caps at 180,000.
Senior Liberal Democrats say it was their presence in government which prevented the Conservatives
capping student
immigration, kept open the post-study work route and prevented a more draconian crack - down on the
numbers of people entering Britain.
The document detailing the parallels between past and present Tory manifestos shows an alarming
number of policies - such as the
cap on
immigration and pledges to cut inheritance tax - that differ little, if at all, from those promised in 2005 and 2001.