Senators Charles E. Schumer and Lindsey O. Graham announced their immigration reform legislation includes provisions that would benefit certain skilled workers.  In an op-ed published in The Washington Post on March 19, 2010, they wrote:

Ensuring economic prosperity requires attracting the world’s best and brightest. Our legislation would award green cards to immigrants who receive a PhD or master’s degree in science, technology, engineering or math from a U.S. university.  It makes no sense to educate the world’s future inventors and entrepreneurs and then force them to leave when they are able to contribute to our economy.

See:  http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/17/AR2010031703115.html