Corrine Brown Quotes


Undoubtedly, there are numerous problems with the immigration system here in The United States.


Citations

United States, Congress, House. Representative Brown speaking on the Border Protection, Antiterrorism, and Illegal Immigration Control Act of 2005. Congressional Record, Government Printing Office, 16 Dec. 2005, p. H12015.

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The United States policies at the time encouraged tens of thousands of foreigners to study in America—especially mathematics, science and engineering. Then after they graduate we expel them despite the fact that we have a great labor shortage of these technical skill areas. The result is that the American economy lags in one of its most important areas, high technology for lack of qualified people to fill the jobs. Larger American companies then set up operations overseas and hire many of the people who we kicked out, so they do not pay any taxes to America. The best and most ambitious of these American trained foreigners, then start their own businesses abroad, create many jobs that never benefit Americans and then sell to America competing with American firms. New York City alone had tens of thousands of open jobs at very high salaries for which there were no Americans to fill while the New York schools had trained enough foreigners to fill the jobs, but our national policies forced the best and the brightest to leave and compete with us.


Corrine Brown
Corrine Brown
  • Born: November 11, 1946
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Politician

Corrine Brown is an American former politician and convicted felon, who served as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Florida from 1993 to 2017. She is a member of the Democratic Party. After a court-ordered redistricting significantly changed her district, and a federal indictment for corruption, Brown was defeated in the 2016 Democratic primary by Al Lawson, who went on to win Brown's former seat.