Posted on 09/18/2019 8:33:50 PM PDT by david1292
Regarding our good “friend” Rand...
I found this on Center for Immigration Studies...(I think this is from hearings in July, but not sure):
The Senate version of the bill was co-introduced by Sens. Mike Lee (R-Utah) and Kamala Harris (D-Calif.). Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) had blocked it from unanimous consent because of concerns that it would reduce the admission of foreign nurses. Reportedly, Sen. Paul has recently agreed to let it come up if it includes a provision that would guarantee admission of 5,000 foreign nurses on temporary visas each year for the next 10 years. This will please U.S. hospitals, which generally prefer to import nurses from abroad rather than expand the number of slots for Americans to enter domestic nursing schools to fill the need. Since when is nursing a job Americans won’t do?
The best solution to this issue is not to scrap the per country cap, or to increase the number of green cards, as some have argued, but to enact a merit-based system for awarding employment green cards that rewards the most qualified, talented, and likely to succeed, regardless of their country of origin.
Sooo he may have blocked the bill today and or in July because he wants 5,000 foreign nurses...Good that he blocked it; but he did it for the wrong reason IMHO
Though the social justice warriors are making inroads, I think tech/stem degree programs are the lone bastions of quantitative, logical learning.
One of my kids has PhD in Chem Engr...There was no room for PC BS in his courses; same for other son w/MS in EE/CE. Daughter had one gen ed PC course on GMO food, but that was it...tho she went to a fairly conservative school in a science program...
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