Rep. Eric Cantor: Why do we educate foreigners and force them to go back home?

By Rep. Eric Cantor

McClatchy-Tribune News Service

Published: Friday, Nov. 30 2012 12:00 a.m. MST

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The lessons taken from this month's election may vary, but the one thing we all agree on is that getting our economy moving again must be our top priority. We have an opportunity to come together to bring high-skilled immigrants into our workforce and boost economic growth, and to reunite families.

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MapleDon

Springville, UT

DesNews, help me with the numbers.

If we don't have enough jobs to employ people in this country--especially the 16 million (+/-) who can't find work, why would (let alone should) we want to give jobs to people who aren't More..

12:19 a.m. Nov. 30, 2012
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SLars

Provo, UT

Wouldn't it be nice to educate Americans to fill those jobs? Of the 3.3 million work visas given out each year, half go to people with high educational backgrounds. From computers to nurses, engineers, etc. The IT field is filled with foreign More..

12:14 a.m. Nov. 30, 2012
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SLars

Provo, UT

Besides all the other Visas we give for work, we have the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) professional workers (TN) and families.

Here is the list of NAFTA occupations admitted. We gave out 887,000 visas to people in these More..

12:55 a.m. Nov. 30, 2012
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