people who come here unskilled or low skilled have direct impact on the wages of americans. whether their ancestors came over on the play flower or took the oath of citizenship who are competing for those very same jobs. >> tucker: senator purdue about 60 million the estimate is speak other than english at home. dramatic increase over the last 50 years and getting bigger every year and bad obviously to divide the country. do you think your bill would do something to change is that? >> phil, there are several categories that we use in a merit based system. this is what the president talked about in his campaign. one the reasons quite frankly why he got elected i give him high marks for making this a priority in his new administration. when you look at the categories in here. somebody could come in here and be a ph.d. and no english skills and qualify. this is not about english speaking only. diverse group of people to come in and grow our economy. >> tucker: what are the criteria. >> first have you got education. have you got job. if you have been contributory in terms of