Thread: Schiff touts visa reform

Schiff touts visa reform
Caltech roundtable focuses on keeping tech grads in U.S.
By Joe Piasecki, joe.piasecki@latimes.com

August 11, 2011 | 6:15 p.m.

Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Burbank) met with a panel of scientists, engineers and technology firm executives Thursday to discuss possible changes to federal immigration policy that could boost American competitiveness in the technology sector.

The session at the California Institute of Technology drew about a dozen participants, including two Caltech Nobel laureates — President Emeritus David Baltimore and chemistry professor Robert Grubbs.

Schiff said he is planning to draft a bill that would make it easier for foreign students in the fields of science and engineering to stay in the U.S. after they graduate and their student visas expire.

“We’ve had graduates in engineering who wanted to stay and start their own businesses, and we probably kicked them out of the country. In this kind of [competitive global] environment, that’s economic suicide,â€

Excuse me, but, I have to get thsi out of my system.
Schiff, you bloody fool, we are the best and brightest. Look back at American ingenuity, diligence, creativity. Look at the numbers of young people entering our colleges seeking engineering degrees, only to find that fools like you want to import our next generation of engineers.

Look at he numbers of graduates in Information Technology versus the numbers of openings. All that you want to do is to provide a cadre of lower income people into our economy, the one difference between today and your idea is that after they get an American education, they get an American's job. We do that with the middle class today.

You are a sorry example of an American, especially one who is supposed to support and protect, by oath, those who elected you.