Alexander Acosta: “This needs to be solved. And the longer Congress waits to address this, the more expensive it is going to get.”

Our economy needs workers. For the first time since we've been keeping this data, we have more open jobs than we have individuals looking for jobs.

So Congressman, I think it's important to recognize, we are not eliminating or doing away with registered apprenticeships. We're creating an alternative for those industries that have found that registered apprenticeship programs don't…

What I am suggesting is that we have a healthcare system that imposes a number of mandates and that is as a Nation getting increasingly, increasingly expensive.

I think this puts the American people in a really difficult situation because every year they ask, 'Are we going to get our visas? Are we not going to get our visas?'