I want to tell a small anecdote that will illustrate the problems with our current system on attracting talent. In my office today. a gentleman by the name of Bill Watkins from Seagate Corporation out of California just opened a new branch in Singapore and hired U.S. graduates. foreign students who graduated from MIT and other universities. The reason he hired them to go to Singapore. where he will pay them less money than he would have paid them in the United States. the reason he sent those jobs overseas is because of our immigration policy that basically will educate you in the United States. but then after we educate you. we will send you home. The amendment I offer today says we are going to actually value people who are educated here. especially in the science and mathematics and engineering fieldswe call those the stem fieldsin the health sciences fields. we are going to give you even more points than the current bill does so that into the future we will attract the best and the brightest from around the world. It is the idea of being a brain drain to the rest of the world.
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