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The Senate Judiciary Committee’s work this week on the Gang of 8 (G8) immigration reform bill could include an energetic debate on two competing views about temporary skilled visas – the H-1B (for those with Bachelor’s degrees or higher) and the L-1 (for managers, executives and those with specialized knowledge) – and how they impact U.S. workers and the U.S. economy. These views are represented in [...]
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This blog originally was published by The Daily Caller. ----- “This time it’s going to be different.” Have you heard that before? The Chicago Cubs faithful know what I am talking about. As did “Star Wars” fans after Episode One, as well as Zsa Zsa Gabor’s ex-husbands. And then there are those in the tech industry who for years have advocated for Congress to pass immigration reform. On Monday, eight [...]
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In watching the news reports on immigration reform throughout the day, one thing that has been missing from the discussion is any context for the legislative activities of the past couple of days. To fill that gap, I prepared an ITI Policy Brief that gives some political and policy background for the Senate’s bipartisan efforts with the principles and the Immigration Innovation (I-Squared) Act, and [...]
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Sparky Anderson, who managed World Series-winning teams in Cincinnati and Detroit, once remarked, “We’re getting close to opening day. I don’t know if that’s a good or bad thing.” January 3rd, 2013 marked American policymaking’s opening day: the start of the 113th Congress. We in the tech industry see the start of a new season of policymaking as a good thing because ours is an industry rooted [...]
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Our immigration system is hurting our nation’s economic recovery. Yes, not exactly breaking news, but we got another reminder of this well-known reality yesterday when the U.S. government announced that all 85,000 new H-1B visas for Fiscal Year 2013, including 20,000 for U.S. advanced degree graduates, were used up as of Monday. It took only ten weeks to hit the H-1B cap. Compare that to last year, [...]
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In the Daily Caller on Friday, ITI's Robert Hoffman focuses on a growing debate before the Congress: namely, how do we keep the foreign-born innovators that we train in U.S. colleges and universities here, in the U.S., after graduation? He argues that it's time to fix America's immigration system and keep these job creators here. College graduations are in full swing across our great nation. As [...]