Engineering, elite of the world who want to come here. They announce theyre going to quit taking applications. They started last week. The window was open from april 1 till yesterday. 85,000 were more than apply for. When you have a system that denies these young people to best the best and the brightest in the world to come here, go to school, and then we wont let them stay. So they go home and start a factory that employs 800 people. If we had let them, they wouldve gone to memphis and started a factory that employs 800 people that they would put [applause] have peoplell think about texas border. We are in one of the high tech centers of the world in this town where we sit. They need, as the mayor said, they need this talent here. It is talent we are denying to ourselves. I would urge all of you to just do a little bit of research about how many jobs are created by the average person that gets in h1b visa to come to the United States. In a matter of years, it is multiples. There are
Reasons. Laces we cannot deport people to, like cuba, for example. And our job is not to house these people, to house people strictly for criminal violations. That is our role. So if they have completed their senses through the u. S. Their sentences through the u. S. Criminal justice system, there is not much we can do. They focused on people who committed recent crimes. Unfortunately we are tight on time. We have been speaking with alan gomez from usa today. That is all the time we have today on washington journal. Join us tomorrow at 7 00 a. M. Eastern now we will head to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee taking a look at the recent elections in ukraine and its current impact on Foreign Relations in the country. Good morning. This hearing of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee will come to order. I want to welcome our panelists and thank them for taking time, for sharing their perspective on developments in the ukraine, which appear only slightly less ominous than they did in
Thanks to our colleagues and witnesses for working with the staff to enable us to put this hearing together fairly quickly. The purpose as you know is to examine 1691 the Border Patrol act of 2014 introduced by senator tester and mccain and this bill would make the badly needed reforms to the system of the Border Patrol for discourtesy too complicated and difficult to manage. I want to talk about what is happening currently along the borders over the past few years have seen a surge in the unauthorized migration from Central America which is nearing record highs and an unprecedented number of people operating at the border are unaccompanied children. Some are as young as ten years of age. They appropriately require that the children be treated differently than other migrants. They must be transferred department of health and Human Services and there are strict rules about their care. He announced he was creating a task force and devoting Additional Resources to coordinate the care. Sin
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