From PRI, Public Radio International and KCRW Santa Monica, this is To the Point.

Give us you're educated, you're skilled, you're upwardly mobile.

Is the U.S. entering a new era in immigration?

I'm Sarah Terry sitting in for Warren Olney, and this is To the Point from Public Radio International, a daily look at the issues Americans care about most.

As the Senate debates a bill that would dramatically overhaul U.S. immigration policies, one of the key issues to emerge is the preference the legislation would give to educated and skilled workers.

What are the implications of a shift towards talent over family ties? Does it? is the preference the legislation would give to educated and skilled workers.

What are the implications of a shift towards talent over family ties?

Does the bill go far enough?

Should all restrictions be lifted on green cards for educated workers?

On reporter's notebook, 11 years and counting, Burmese human rights activist,

Aung San Suu Kyi, faces yet another year of house arrest.

First, here's the news.

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I'm Sarah Terry, sitting in for Warren Alley, back with To the Point from PRI. We'll be talking

about a group that's not mentioned on that famous list on the Statue of Liberty. You're tired,

you're poor, your huddled masses, yearning to be free. These days, the skilled and the educated

are at the top of the list

when it comes to proposed reform to U.S. immigration policy. Is the shift overdue? How will the

proposed changes affect America's labor pool and its competitiveness in the global marketplace?

On reporter's notebook, she's a Nobel Peace Prize winner

who hasn't been able to leave home for years, literally, and she won't be going anywhere anytime

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