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Our broken immigration system hurts the economy
By Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) - 07/26/11 11:54 AM ET
I am often asked why I am so adamant about passing immigration reform. My
answer is always that I believe there are two issues that will determine
America’s global competitiveness for the 21st century — education and
immigration. Our economic supremacy arose because our schools successfully
developed America’s best minds, and our immigration system successfully
attracted the world’s best minds.
But now, the world is far more competitive. Students in countries around the
world are outperforming U.S. students in math and science. At the same time
, our competitors are enacting immigration policies that offer scientists
and engineers from around the world up to $250,000 to emigrate, in order to
deploy their talents and skills in for the good of our competitors’
economies.
If we do not enact an immigration policy that continues to attract the world
’s best minds, we will cease to be the world’s economic leader. Not only
will our economy be at grave risk – eventually, our national security will
as well.
Unfortunately, our broken immigration system actually discourages the world
’s best and brightest minds from coming to America to create jobs.
Here is the problem. Every year, according to the Institute of International
Education, there are about 250,000 foreign students enrolled in our
American universities to study science, technology, engineering, and
mathematics (what are known as the “STEM” subjects). Foreign students
represent the majority of our degree recipients in these subjects.
So what happens to these students after they graduate from our colleges? Are
we putting them to work to invent new technologies that would employ
American workers? No, we are not. Instead, we are telling these folks to
return to their home countries, or compete for a limited number of temporary
visas (known as H-1B visas).
Even if you are lucky enough to obtain one of these visas, that visa is
temporary, does not allow your spouse to work in the country, and does not
permit you to earn a promotion or switch jobs unless the immigration service
approves a lengthy second application filed by your employer.
If you were a smart student at the top of your class and in demand globally,
would you want to stay in America under those circumstances? Of course not.
It is time for our immigration policy to reward hard work, and to foster
job creation rather than discouraging it.
My immigration proposal will ensure that the best and brightest students
from around the world in science, engineering, technology, and mathematics,
who study in our universities, can stay here after getting their degrees. We
will do this by stapling a green card to their diploma. This green card
will allow these students to start new companies, change jobs if a better
opportunity exists, and allow their spouses to work in the country.
But, as this hearing will make clear today, fixing our broken immigration
system is not just about attracting highly skilled immigrants to the country
.
Study after study is showing that, even the immigrant who comes here with
little or nothing in order to make a better life for his or her family —
just as many of us and our ancestors did — is also critical to making
America a more vibrant and economically successful country.
As local mayors will discuss today, immigrants are renewing many of our rust
-belt communities that were once seen as having no hope for the future.
The Federal Reserve Bank of Boston recently released a report which said
that in the top 10 “resurgent cities” in the nation — defined as rust-
belt cities that have made substantial progress in improving living
standards for their residents — the immigrant population in those cities
has increased from 4.5% in 1980 to more than 15% today.
And, a recent study from the Kauffman Foundation showed that immigrant-owned
businesses jumped from 13.4 percent of all new businesses in 1996 to 29.5
percent of all new businesses in 2010.
So unlike those who attempt to fearmonger the issue of immigration, I am not
at all concerned that people want to come to America. I am much more
worried about a day they no longer find America attractive.
I am confident that our distinguished panelists today will help us better
understand the urgent need we face to reform our immigration system in a
manner that will grow our economy by attracting those who want to come here
to start a business or to contribute their innovative skills and talents to
keep America’s economy strong.
Sen. Schumer serves on the Senate Judiciary Committee. | j******0
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: http://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/politics/173553-our-brok
: Our broken immigration system hurts the economy
: By Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) - 07/26/11 11:54 AM ET
:
: I am often asked why I am so adamant about passing immigration reform. My
: answer is always that I believe there are two issues that will determine
: America’s global competitiveness for the 21st century — education and
: immigration. Our economic supremacy arose because our schools successfully
: developed America’s best minds, and our immigration system successfully
: attracted the world’s best minds.
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发帖数: 11017 | 3 此人通篇在讲STEM
他和罗富贵 是民主党里我比较欣赏的两位移民改革提倡者
【在 j******0 的大作中提到】
: 对这些民主党的提案, 我一向一笑置之. 因为最终受益的是非法移民
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发帖数: 34098 | 4 一看到but我心理就是一沉
【在 s**********h 的大作中提到】
: http://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/politics/173553-our-brok
: Our broken immigration system hurts the economy
: By Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) - 07/26/11 11:54 AM ET
:
: I am often asked why I am so adamant about passing immigration reform. My
: answer is always that I believe there are two issues that will determine
: America’s global competitiveness for the 21st century — education and
: immigration. Our economic supremacy arose because our schools successfully
: developed America’s best minds, and our immigration system successfully
: attracted the world’s best minds.
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