ITI
HAILS SENATE AGREEMENT ON COMPREHENSIVE IMMIGRATION LEGISLATION
05.17.2007
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
ITI HAILS SENATE AGREEMENT ON
COMPREHENSIVE IMMIGRATION LEGISLATION
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Information
Technology Industry Council (ITI) President Rhett Dawson today praised a Senate
agreement that would overhaul the immigration system and create
leaders to create a firm deadline to pass a comprehensive immigration bill
that includes provisions to reform H-1B and employment-based green card system
for highly skilled workers.
“The US has experienced a growing shortage of highly educated scientists
and engineers in recent years,” Dawson said in the letter. “This
shortage has reached a crisis level and must be addressed now. We think
a firm deadline will help create the will to find a bipartisan agreement needed
to pass this legislation. Meaningful and timely bi-partisan negotiations
are the only way Congress will be able to produce a bill this year.
“Any high skilled provisions included in the bill must improve the ability
of American companies to compete for the world's leading scientists and engineers. Comprehensive
immigration reform should streamline the path to permanent residency for U.S.-educated
students studying math and science, provide critical relief with respect to
the number of available H-1B and employment-based visas, and reduce the backlog
within the employment-based green card system. This type of reform will
lead to a more highly skilled workforce and help maintain our competitive and
technological edge in an increasingly competitive global economy.”
ABOUT ITI
The Information Technology Industry Council (ITI) is an elite group of the
nation's top high-tech companies and is widely recognized as the tech industry's
most effective lobbying organization in Washington. ITI helps member
companies achieve their policy objectives through building relationships with
Members of Congress, Administration officials, and foreign governments; organizing
industry-wide consensus on policy issues; and working to enact tech-friendly
government policies.
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ITI member companies include Accenture, Agilent Technologies, AMD, Apple, Applied Materials, Canon U.S.A., Cisco, ca, Corning, Dell, Eastman Kodak, eBay, EMC, Hewlett-Packard, Honeywell, IBM, Intel, Intuit, Lenovo, Lexmark, Micron, Microsoft, Monster, National Semiconductor, NCR, Oracle, Panasonic, SAP, Sony Electronics, Sun Microsystems, Symbol Technologies, Tektronix, Texas Instruments, Time Warner, Unisys, Verisign and Vonage.
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