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Microsoft Hosts Skilled Immigration Roundtable
The Washington Post August 1, 2012 The sleek conference room at Microsoft’s Washington, D.C., office was packed Wednesday morning with industry and policy leaders. The conversation topic: The skilled worker pipeline in the U.S., particularly the cap on H-1B visas. Talk ranged from policy prescriptions to where the demand… Read More
Building a Bipartisan Consensus and Rebuilding Communities: A Job Creation Bill for America’s Hardest Hit Areas
The Huffington Post July 31, 2012 I can think of few issues that have led to more heated rhetoric and emotions than immigration. Much of the recent focus has rightly been on fixing our broken immigration system and what to do about the undocumented population that has been living… Read More
House Bill Would Expand Work Visa Program to Include Foreign Entrepreneurs
The Star-Ledger July 31, 2012 More startup competition could be setting up shop next door if a bill introduced in the House makes visas available to foreign entrepreneurs who start businesses here. U.S. House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers (D-Mich.) and Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) on Thursday introduced the… Read More
Absurd U.S. Immigration Policies Amount To Economy Sapping Talent Drain
Forbes July 30, 2012 Global demand for advanced degree holders, combined with U.S. immigration policies, is causing America to lose some of the world’s brightest minds. After funding their studies and awarding them degrees, America forces some 50,000 highly educated foreign-born workers out of the country each year. This… Read More
H-1B Visas Bring the World Here
Cincinnati Enquirer July 29, 2012 Greater Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky already form more of an international region than some here might know, results of a new study of high-skilled foreign workers employed in major U.S. cities show. And, according to the Brookings Institution report, “The Search for Skills,” the… Read More
Opinion: Why New York Still Welcomes Immigrants
The Wall Street Journal July 27, 2012 Many states across the U.S. have passed restrictive immigration measures in recent years. But New York under Gov. Andrew Cuomo is bucking the trend. “We are a state of immigrants,” he declared in his 2012 State of the State address. “While other… Read More
Federal CTO Todd Park Taps the Private Sector to Drive Innovation
Government Executive July 27, 2012 Reforming the way Citizenship and Immigration Services handles entrepreneurs’ visas seemed like a natural fit for the EIR approach, USCIS Director Alejandro Mayorkas says. More than three-fourths of patents awarded to the top 10 patent-producing universities listed at least one foreign-born inventor in… Read More
Tom Still: Don’t Deport World’s Brightest Minds
LaCrosse Tribune July 25, 2012 Ankit Agarwal is a two-time finalist in the Wisconsin Governor’s Business Plan Contest and a biochemical engineer whose work promises to help doctors treat patients with slow-to-heal skin wounds. He even has started a Madison-based company, Imbed Biosciences, to commercialize his discoveries. Too bad… Read More
Investing in America Produces the Best Return
Politico July 17, 2012 The question I’m most often asked these days is, “Where should I invest?” In recent years, we all know, there has been an unusually high degree of uncertainty. It falls into two broad categories: cyclical concerns that focus on the outlook for near-term economic growth… Read More
High-Skilled Immigration Restrictions Are Economically Senseless
Forbes July 22, 2012 Employer discrimination based on national origin has been illegal in the United States since the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, yet American immigration law has continued to discriminate in that exact manner. If the government insists on restricting foreign workers’ access to U.S. Read More
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