House Judiciary Immigration Subcommittee Hearing on "STEM"

House Judiciary Immigration Subcommittee Hearing on "STEM the Tide: Should America Try to Prevent an Exodus of Foreign Graduates of U.S. Universities with Advanced Science Degrees?"

* Wow, when it comes to the employment-based immigration reform, the House takes a leadership over the Senate. On Wednesday, 10/05/2011, the House Immigration Subcommittee is scheduled to have a hearing on the above entitled subject. Of course, STEM is abbreviations of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics, which are the areas where the United States are left behind of some of other countries because of its flaws with the education system and lack of long-term visions of its leaders over the nation's future. In Asia, there is an old saying that it takes "100 years" to see impact of education on the society and life and thus the rulers should have a long term vision over the future of the society 100 years ahead, and plan and implement educational reform with the vision of future of the nation and life of people 100 years in the future!
* Reality is that no matter who should be blamed for the current state of the nation, the nation needs STEM brains to hang on to its last straw of leadership in the global economy and society. Chunk of these brains are currently supplied by foreign STEM brains. Problem is these foreign STEM brains have been slowly drained by two developments: One is the incentives that have been offered by other growing economic power nations attracting them to their countries. The other is a serious flaws with the employment-based immigration system in this country. This is reportedly expressed by such a business magnet as the New York City Mayor, Mr. Bloomberg, as "National Suicide." Even though it is miles too late, we welcome the House leadership to take initiaves and open a dialogue to discuss the current state of crisis. Please stay tuned to this website for the text of witness testimonies and development of this legislative initiatives.

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Do we qualify under this bill?

I think its only for legal immigrants. Its like DA for outsiders...

Dreamers might qualify under this, or what if they attach this to DREAM Act, the good thing is that congress is finally starting to take up these immigration bills, and hopefully Dream Act gets passed too, sooner than later.....

Without a compromise, I don't think this and other legal immigration bills proposed by the GOP have a chance of passing.

I see this bill being attached to E-verify and the Legal Workforce Act Bills in the House, passing the lower house. In the Senate, I expect Democrats, if they are smart, to sneak in the DA. I am sure Senator Reid will try to sneak in the DA.

They should attached it to the DA...

methinks this is for hb-1 visas and f-1 students?

How do you sneak DA into this bill? It requires 60 votes to attach DA to anything, you can't just sneak it in.

This gives me an uneasy thought. Republicans may just be introducing immigration bills left and right, which Democrats will parry (hehe) by attaching legalization provisions (hopefully). The issue, though, is that Republicans will get a chance to shoot them down if Democrats don't, leaving them free to blame Democrats for the failure of "fixes" to the all-important legal immigration system.