Nearly 100 of them are currently enrolled in medical school at a time
when we need more doctors, particularly in rural areas. Those are the
facts. I note that at the meeting at the White House, the President actually
said that when this got done, he wanted to pursue comprehensive
immigration reform. It is something that we have done before on a
bipartisan basis in the Senate, and I believe that is where we need to
turn now. We talk about the economic sense of the Dreamers. Look at our country
overall. Seventy of our Fortune 500 companies are headed by immigrants. Twenty-five percent of our U.S. Nobel Laureates were born in other
countries. Immigrants have been an economic engine for this country. Everyone in this Chamber came from somewhere. Their relatives came
from somewhere.
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