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But you are aware that we were 90,000 H-1B openings short this year.
We would be penny wise and pound foolish to not do the H-1B bill.
Our country is a stupid country in some ways. We just push these people and we educate them.
Let me just say this, Mr. Chairman, one more comment: You know, my State of Utah, it is a go-go State. It basically is competitive with every other State in the country, and I have to say, it is like number 2. It is number 1 where people…
It makes no sense to ignore aspects of our immigration law and allow them to be frozen in time.
I introduced the I-Squared Act, which has bipartisan support in the Senate, including from Senators Klobuchar, Flake, Coons and Blumenthal.
I would be surprised that there is anyone here that thinks we do not need to reform our immigration laws.
And we need, according to everybody I talk to, about 90,000 more openings and we do not have them.
To stop it here because we are afraid it might interfere with some jobs, it is going to create jobs.
It seems that we spend too much time talking about the occasional shortcomings of the system rather than the economic benefits of welcoming foreign-born, high-skilled workers who want to stay here, especially after they have been educated…
Well, it seems that the right answer to U.S. worker displacement is to update the 1998 law for H-1B-dependent companies.
Failure to reform our high-skilled immigration system is forcing American companies to outsource their innovation centers to countries like Canada.
America and American companies need more high-skilled workers. This is an undeniable fact.
I want more jobs fulfilled in our country. I want more jobs created.
Such isolationist policies will never succeed in today's global economy.