State of South Carolina Archives: on Immigration

Amy Klobuchar: Let foreign medical students stay as rural doctors

We're going to have a million openings for home health care workers, particularly in rural areas, that we don't know how to fill. We're going to have over 100,000 openings for nursing assistants. We're not going to have a shortage of sports marketing degrees. We're going to have a shortage of plumbers and nurses.

So putting incentives in place with how we do loan payback, making one- and two-year degrees free, and then of course creating loan payback programs if people will go, especially medical students, into rural areas.

I have passed the bill that allows doctors from other countries that study in our medical schools to stay and serve in rural areas. We need to expand that.

Ralph Norman: Build the wall to protect our sovereignty

Tommy Pope: Build the border wall, and cut off sanctuary cities

Thomas Ravenel: Finding bad guys among 11M illegals is needles in a haystack

Joyce Dickerson: Supports comprehensive immigration reform

Alvin Greene: Pathway to citizenship, with official English

A: Yes.

Q: Do you support decreasing the number of legal immigrants allowed into the country?

A: No.

Q: Do you support establishing English as the official national language?

A: Yes.

Q: Do you support the enforcement of federal immigration laws by state and local police?

A: Yes.

Q:

Lee Bright: Make permanent the E-Verify program

• Whereas, E-Verify is currently a voluntary Internet-based pilot program used to assist employers in verifying the work authorization of new hires
• Whereas, as of 2009, over 100,000 employers have registered with E-Verify; and
• Whereas, many states, including South Carolina, have relied to their detriment on the continued availability of E-Verify in establishing state level programs to combat illegal immigration.
• Be it resolved: That the members of the General Assembly request that the United States Congress take immediate action to make the E-Verify Program permanent and provide the funding and resources necessary to ensure its continued effectiveness.