YODER. Mr. Speaker, more than 700,000 high-skilled immigrant
workers from India are in the United States today on temporary work
visas. These people are working hard every day helping grow our economy
and raising their children as Americans right here in our communities. But under our legal immigration system, they are essentially here as
indentured servants, stuck in a cycle of temporary work visas, unable
to change jobs or even start their own businesses to create more
American jobs. They are stuck because of the arbitrary 7-percent-per-
nation cap on employment-based green cards. Now there is a mother in Greenland whose unborn child will be able to
obtain permanent residence in America before someone from India who has
already been working here for years. That is absurd, and it is wrong. My bill, called the Fairness for High-Skilled Immigrants Act, would
fix this problem. It would transition us to a first come, first served,
merit-based legal immigration system. It would help these people in
need, and it would help create new jobs. Mr.
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