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Vivek Wadhwa, senior research associate with the Labor and Worklife Program at Harvard Law School, discusses Indian "body shops" and a rule in the new border security bill that increases fees for H1B visas for highly skilled foreign workers.

Vivek Wadhwa, a fellow with the Labor and Worklife Program at Harvard Law School and executive in residence at Duke University, says immigrants are staying away from the US because of anti-immigrant rhetoric, while Peter Goodman, national economic correspondent for the New York Times and author of PAST DUE: ...

Vivek Wadhwa, a fellow with the Labor and Worklife Program at Harvard Law School and executive in residence and adjunct professor at the Pratt School of Engineering at Duke University, talks about why limiting access to H1B visas is a perilous policy that will force out the best ...

As the global economic crunch, governments are limiting immigration and foreign work visas to try to keep jobs available for citizens instead of immigrants. This week Australia announced it was limiting immigration limits by 14 percent. Here in the U.S., a provision in the economic stimulus package limits the hiring of foreign workers by any company receiving government bailout money, including all those big banks. It sounds like common sense to protect citizen's jobs, but Vivek Wadhwa, Duke adjunct professor and a researcher at Harvard Law School's Labor and Worklife Program, joins The Takeaway to tell us why he thinks it will hurt the economy in the long term.