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Eugene

(61,939 posts) Tue May 15, 2012, 07:14 PM May 2012

Senator (Cornyn) seeks expanded visas for foreign high-tech workers

Source: Reuters

Senator seeks expanded visas for foreign high-tech workers

WASHINGTON | Tue May 15, 2012 5:00pm EDT

(Reuters) - A leading Republican in the Senate on Tuesday unveiled legislation to raise the number of temporary visas for skilled technical workers from foreign countries, but prospects of passage this year could be clouded by election-year politics.

Senator John Cornyn, the senior Republican on a panel that oversees immigration, introduced a bill that would make an additional 55,000 visas available each year for graduates with master's and doctoral degrees who have studied at U.S. research institutions.

This is one of several immigration-related bills that could be kicked around this year in Congress and in the presidential campaign. But there is scant evidence so far of enough consensus to get anything enacted into law.

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Senator (Cornyn) seeks expanded visas for foreign high-tech workers (Original Post) Eugene May 2012 OP

Entirely logical if you think about it. Jackpine Radical May 2012 #1

Jackpine Radical

(45,274 posts)

1. Entirely logical if you think about it.

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Tue May 15, 2012, 07:21 PM

May 2012

Not only can you get the foreigners cheap, but we don't even have to pay for their education. That way we can eliminate our schools & colleges for a huge cost savings, as the Republicans seem intent on doing.

Jeez, all of us that thought the nation would be hurt by our deteriorating educational system were wrong.

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