Before the employer can hire the worker. the employer must advertise a position. offer it to any qualified American worker. and agree to pay at least minimum wage. The worker will go through background screening. will be issued secure biometric documentation. that they are who they say they are and are coming here to work and not for some other nefarious purpose. We also create some financial incentives so that the worker. after the period of their temporary visa expires. will return home with the savings and skills they have acquired while working in the United States. I talked moments ago about the Pew Hispanic survey. Circular migration is important both for the United States and for countries such as Mexico and the countries of Central America who are losing their young risk takers and the potential entrepreneurs. the people who are essential to the development of their own economy. What economy could withstand the loss of the young men and women. the people who are going to be the engines of those economies and the prosperity of those countries? The public officials in Mexico and Central America with whom I talked do understand they need to have these people come back with the savings and skills they have acquired in the United States. so they can develop a way forward for their own people. In the end. it will benefit the United States because it will take a lot of pressure off illegal immigration if people can find hope and opportunity and good jobs in their own country. Finally. let me address what perhaps is the hardest issue: the people who are here now who have come here outside of our laws. According to the Pew Hispanic Center again. about a third of these individuals have been here for more than 10 years.
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