They did business with colleagues they met at U.S. schools. Our country was obtaining some of the most brilliant minds not only from within our borders but from across the world. Unfortunately. restrictions and limitations put on visas in recent years have forced many of the business leaders of the next generation to attend school in other more welcoming countries. To reverse this trend. the WISH Act allows fulltime foreign college and graduate students to work and travel while studying in the United States and provides for foreign students who graduate from a U.S. college with honors to stay in the United States to work after graduation. I am personally involved in this issue both because I represent a border State and because I remember the day. when I was 5 or 6 years old. that my parents learned that the lawyer who advised them about citizenship was wrong and February 17. 2006 CONGR[ my mother was an illegal alien. Federal officials came to our house to arrest my mother while my father was at work. It was a frightening situation for my entire family that occurred through no fault of my mother. who had lived in America for more than 30 years as an exemplary citizen and who was told by an attorney that she was an American. I believe that we can. and must. do our best to prevent situations like this from occurring in the future. I believe that the measures in the WISH Act. together with the measures in my Border Security and Modernization Act. will play an important role in that effort. and I am pleased to introduce this bill today. I ask unanimous consent that the text of the bill be printed in the RECORD.
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