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Mark Pryor: “We allow the best and the brightest to come over here and get educated, but then we do not let them stay here and work.”

On the recordMarch 1, 2011
We allow the best and the brightest to come over here and get educated, but then we do not let them stay here and work.
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Mark Pryor
Democratic · Arkansas

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Pryor discusses the need for better immigration policies to retain skilled workers.

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