Session #105 · 1997–99

Speech #1050202760

If you do not have people who are educated and can understand and participate. you lose the democracy. And we have done some things here in this last couple weeks which are. if you think about them in that context. are very destructive. We had a big debate out here about how many H1B visas we are going to give. Now. most people do not what an H1B visa is because our grandparents or our great grandparents came and they just kind of walked in here. But now if you come to the United States. you have to have some kind of a visa. and it either has to be a work visa or you are coming here because your family has been here and you are unifying the family or maybe there is so many could come in from each country. But we have a special category. It is called an HlB visa. This is a visa that we give to people who have a special skill somewhere in the world. We say. we need that skill in the United States. so we will give you one of those visas. come on in and work here. You cant stay. but we will use you. we can pay you as little as possible. give you no benefit. but if you are willing to come here. we will take you in on that basis. Last year we passed the bill and we said we need 60.000 of those people in the United States next year. Lo and behold. industry in this country was so desperate for trained people that we had used those 60.000 visas by the 1st of July. So in come the Republicans and say. we need 150.000 more. We have to go out into Poland and Czechoslovakia and Germany and India and Cambodia and we have got to find these 150.000 people and let them come in here.
Keywords matched
H1B visa visas work visa

Classification

Target group
Sentiment
Mixed
Stereotyping
No
Confidence
100%
Model
gemini-2.0-flash
Framing
Economic contributor Legal / procedural

Speaker & context

Speaker
JIM MCDERMOTT
Party
D
Chamber
H
State
WA
Gender
M
Date
1998-10-10
Speech ID
1050202760
Paragraph
#0
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