Session #110 · 2007–09

Speech #1100037498

These 500.000 foreign students who are here include some of the brightest students from China. some of the brightest students from India. some of the brightest from around the world. They are going to create jobs somewhere. We would like for them to stay and create jobs here. yet our archaic immigration laws prevent that. They require these students to swear they are going home before they come. They make it hard for them to stay once they get here. So the Senate. last year. in debating the immigration bill. adopted three of the provisions from this report. One. for example. pins a green card on any foreign student who gets a graduate degree in math. science. engineering and technology so that person can stay here and create jobs for us here. I am hopeful when we get to the immigration legislation within a few weeks that we will do at least that much to change our archaic immigration laws and allow those students to stay here and create jobs for us. We talk a lot about outsourcing jobs. This would be insourcing brain power. and we would be smart to do it.
Keywords matched
green card immigration

Classification

Target group
Also mentioned
Chinese Indian
Sentiment
Positive
Stereotyping
No
Confidence
100%
Model
gemini-2.0-flash
Framing
Economic contributor Legal / procedural

Speaker & context

Speaker
LAMAR ALEXANDER
Party
R
Chamber
S
State
TN
Gender
M
Date
2007-04-24
Speech ID
1100037498
Paragraph
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