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Problem / Policy - Restructure The Working Visa Model

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Fernando Gonzalez
CAS 100A 23
11/4/2015
Problem/Policy – Restructure the Working Visa model in USA
INTRODUCTION
I. (Attention-Grabber) What is your initial thought when immigration problem come to mind? I am not going to lie the first think I think of is this video from south park https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEgi0BiToj4 Now I know this is not even politically correct, but that is not problem I am going to talk about, I am going to talk about the immigrations situation concerning the International student and the work visa.
Let me ask you a few questions
A. How many international students do you think are in the US?
- It’s actually 886k, which is 4% of all students in the US.
B. How money do you think is brought in to US by …show more content…

III. (Preview) the H-1 visa situation is an immigration problems that affects directly the students themselves greatly, but it also affects indirectly the US economically, socially, and education wise.
A. Recognize the problem; and how it affects international students, companies, the science community in the US, and even US itself.
B. I would like to propose a restructuration of the H-1 visa model that would that would attend the raising amount of international students and promote STEM in the US.
C. This proposal would be effective because it would allow companies to pick from the best in the US without fearing losing them in the lottery, and at the same time would promote and fund internally STEM programs.
Transition: This is a situation that needs to be addressed the lack of work visas is problem that affects more than group of people.
I. (Needed: Topic Sentence) the lack of working visas is problem that affects students and companies, due to the small cap of visas, they are sorted by lottery. With this lottery system the US loses quality professionals that are not selected, and companies are not as free to maintain in the US the best professionals in the field.
A. What’s currently happening? According to The Daily Caller “prior to the 1990 Act, there was no numerical limit on such workers. However, for the past 12 years, the 65,000 annual supply of H-1B visas, along with a 20,000 exemption for graduate students, has

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