Intel has 38,900 employees in America. It is capitalized at 189 billion dollars. It is one of America's leading exporters. All are refugees, and all are members of IRC's Board of Trustees. They fully share my conviction that America has not yet finished welcoming to our shore the likes of Andy Grove or Secretary of State Madeleine Albright.
Refugees build our nation.
Highly motivated, they seek employment quickly, flock to educational opportunities and zealously support their families. To see them principally as an expense, rather than as an investment, is to ignore history. Local communities and the voluntary sector cannot absorb any more refugees. In addition to our overseas processing network, IRC has offices in 19 cities where we resettled 9,519 refugees in the last fiscal year. I can assure this Committee that we collectively would welcome, and could smoothly accommodate, a significant increase in refugee admissions.