Sentences with phrase «high skill immigrants»

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These companies hope to see an expanded H - 1B visa program, the creation of visas for immigrants who show proof of VC backing, and a clearer path to citizenship for high - skilled workers who are here illegally.

The RAISE Act's lower quotas and emphasis on English and other skills would make it harder to fill those jobs with immigrants, and thus mean more Americans would be diverted from higher - paid, more productive tasks into cleaning - or else have to live and work in dirtier conditions.

The study also notes that high - skilled immigrants who enter the U.S. workforce sometimes indirectly open up new opportunities for U.S. workers.

«We spend more than virtually any other country on public investments and job training and skills development, and yet we have unacceptably high levels of unemployment amongst young Canadians, aboriginal Canadians, new immigrants, and persons with disabilities,» he said.

The annual cap of 85,000 H - 1B visas for high - skilled workers applies only to immigrants who work at companies.

It favors a bill that increases the number of future low - skill immigrants relative to the number of future high - skill immigrants.

«As the national debate on immigration has grown stronger, including immigrants» use of many social services, some have argued that the reason for the high child poverty rate has mostly been due to the large number of children in low - skilled, poor immigrant families,» Joo said.

«The point of the paper,» Borjas tells Science Careers in an interview, is that «it's certainly true that high - skill immigrants will bring in new ideas and some of these ideas will rub off on us, and be innovative and productive.

That suggests the country should go out of its way to craft policies aimed at attracting high - skill immigrants, they conclude.

We also have strong colleges and universities, and we have been open to accepting immigrants with high skills.

Manning's global perspective has been instrumental in her current classroom in the Newcomer Center at Ferris High School in Spokane, a place where immigrant and refugee students are provided the opportunity to study English, foundational reading skills, mathematics, and computers.

They include a «Later to Literacy» program that supports the literacy needs of ESL students; the «Village of Attachment,» where staff, families, and community members create a web of support around the most vulnerable students; «Youth in Transitions,» an after - school program that works closely with students alongside their parents; and «PAWS,» a program designed to help immigrant students who entered the school system late in their high school years develop fundamental skills for success.

This type of job is popular with high school and college students, individuals new to the workplace, recent immigrants, and other workers with few professional skills.

Pittsburgh may be attracting some high skill talent, some people from Brooklyn, some computer scientists from the Bay Area, but it lags badly on international migration, immigrants.

Let's hope, therefore, that Trump's September pledge to admit more high - skilled immigrants wasn't just talk.