High-Tech Titans Strike Out on Immigration Bill
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Bill Gates and Steven A. Ballmer of Microsoft, along with other high-tech executives, are lobbying for more visas for temporary foreign workers and permanent immigrants.
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Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates told Congress on Wednesday that overhauls of the nation's schools and immigration laws are urgently needed to keep jobs from going overseas. "The U.S. cannot maintain its economic leadership unless our work force consists of people who have the knowledge and skills needed to drive innovation," Gates told the Senate committee that oversees labor and education issues.
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Technology lobbying groups are stepping up their push for lawmakers to pass several pieces of legislation.
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Goolag understaffed Google has added to calls for immigration authorities to allow more skilled foreign labour into the US, as the Mountain View firm struggles to keep pace with its own expansion.â¦
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Various groups had complained about provisions of a comprehensive immigration bill, but when it appeared to be dying, they were flummoxed.
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Congress' intelligence overhaul provides the largest buildup in border guards in the nation's history, but many House Republicans won't be satisfied until states are forbidden from giving illegal immigrants driver's licenses that the lawmakers say enable terrorists to operate in the United States.
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The U.S. software industry is larger than the food processing industry in terms of revenue, according to an IT trade group that wants Congress to&#160;raise the annual cap on H-1B visas,&#160;give permanent residency to foreign nationals who graduate from U.S. colleges, and back trade policies that give companies unfettered access to global markets.
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High-tech companies and employers of lesser skilled workers say their discontent with the bill shaping up in the Senate has deepened.
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Business lobbyists believe lawmakers will ultimately strip from Senate minimum wage legislation any sanctions against companies caught hiring illegal immigrants. Whether they can keep it out of immigration law is another matter
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Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates called on the U.S. Congress toÂ raise the cap on skilled-worker visas, saying the county's economic future was at stake.
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A top House Democrat yesterday criticized the Department of Homeland Security for not working aggressively enough to gather fingerprints of foreigners as they leave the country.
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As Democrats take over leadership of both houses of the U.S. Congress from Republicans, technology industry lobbyists will try again to push for worker visa reform.
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Hollywood loves it. Techies hate it. And now, nine senators are signing on to help it pass. That's the latest chapter in the short history of the Induce Act, a bill aimed at cracking down on technologies that can be used to steal copyright works. By Xeni Jardin.
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Lawmakers hire illegals to write the nationâs immigration-reform bill.
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WASHINGTON -- Representative Edward J. Markey, who has been touting a bill to keep thousands of data-entry jobs generated by healthcare companies from going overseas, ran into a spirited opponent between the sushi boat and the open bar at an inaugural party last month: Jonathan S. Bush, the Waltham healthcare entrepreneur and President Bush's cousin.
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WASHINGTON -- Responding to pressure from high-tech businesses and industry groups, the U.S. Congress this weekend approved an increase in the number of H-1B visas by 20,000 but limited it to specially qualified students. The legislation, included in the omnibus budget bill, allows foreign national master's and Ph.D. graduates of U.S. universities to apply for an H-1B visa, according to people familiar with the bill.
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Doubt grew Tuesday over the fate of a crucial US Senate bill which grants a path to citizenship for around 12 million illegal immigrants, as partisan sniping broke out over the timing of votes.