Zoe Lofgren

I would just like to add in that for India, Bachelor of Science graduates, the recent study shows it is a 70-year wait, seven zero.

We need to make sure that when we are getting the best and brightest we are not actually undercutting American engineers and computer scientists.

Unfortunately, America is at higher risk for losing immigrant entrepreneurs to foreign countries.

I would like to thank the Chairman, Congresswoman Lofgren, and the Committee for recognizing that a startup visa category is vital to our country's future.

All of us agree that America is the greatest country on Earth. We attribute this success to our unparalleled freedoms, our abundant natural resources.

We used to invite the brightest minds in the world to come make this their home and become Americans with us, now we turn them away.

We need to have the opportunity for entrepreneurs to start businesses, we need to capture the smart people who are geniuses, we need to pump up our economy.

I think this panel has been terrific, and I want to thank each one of you for what you have added, enriching our understanding of not the challenge, but the opportunity that we have here to make our country even greater by making…

Immigrants were responsible for one-quarter of all engineering and technology startups created in the United States between 1995 and 2005.

What we have now is not competitive.

we need to capture the smart people who are geniuses, we need to pump up our economy.

We turn away advanced degree graduates in STEM from our best universities. We turn away entrepreneurs who want to start businesses.

We need to think about how to be competitive for the brightest people in the world, how to allow them to become Americans with us.

the President is authorized to use all necessary and appropriate force against those nations, organizations, or persons he determines planned, authorized, committed, or aided the terrorist attacks.

We know that expansion of E-Verify can only happen in tandem with other necessary reforms to our broken immigration system.

Without top-to-bottom-reform of our immigration laws, expanding E-Verify would devastate the agricultural economy.

The last thing we want to do in a tough economy is put more costs, especially on the small business sector.

I think it is obvious that any E-Verify system that it is going to be mandated for all employers cannot precede reform of the immigration system.

this was a limitation, and there were big arguments about it.

We know that American agriculture is heavily dependent on undocumented migrant workers.

If all growers were required to use E-Verify, we would confirm what we all know to be true: that American agricultural is built on the backs of undocumented immigrants.

E-Verify can only work if we reform the immigration system. Otherwise, we are just finding out how dysfunctional it really is.

I am, I will just be frank, troubled that the memorandums that allegedly provide the legal basis for this have not been shared.

I would expect no less from the current President.

There is no dispute that our immigration system is broken and fails to meet the needs of our country.