US President Barack Obama has made a strong push for comprehensive immigration reform offering a pathway to citizenship to “harness the talents and ingenuity of striving, hopeful immigrants” to make the US economy stronger. “Our economy is stronger when we harness the talents and ingenuity of striving, hopeful immigrants,” he said on Tuesday taking up the contentious issue of how [...] Read more »
Obama backs immigration reform for skilled tech workers
Tech companies may score a victory in their hopes to get immigration reform passed for skilled tech workers. President Obama urged Congress today to work on immigration policy that would allow foreign-born startup founders to stay in the country. At the same time, several U.S. senators introduced a bill focusing on the same. As U.S. [...] Read more »
Immigration rising to top of U.S. agenda
Immigration reform — one of the country’s most contentious policy issues — is rising to the top of the national agenda as proposed changes start to take shape in Congress. The discussion will resonate on Long Island and other locales where population growth spurred by immigrants has fanned tensions over policing, housing and the unlawful [...] Read more »
Immigration Reform Critical for Tech Innovation
Partisanship may be a problem on Capitol Hill but there was a surprising amount of common ground between a Republican and a Democrat in a debate, Tuesday, at the CIO Network conference in San Diego. Professor Lee Ohanian, a senior fellow at the conservative Hoover Institution, discussed technology policy and innovation with Robert Reich, former [...] Read more »
Time is ripe for farmworker visa program
Every harvest season, U.S. produce growers have a narrow window in which the success of an entire year’s work is dependent on human labor. With some crops, this window is only a few days. But finding a secure, reliable workforce to bring in the harvest can be extremely difficult. Over the last decade, American farmers [...] Read more »
Halt America’s Decline By Welcoming Skilled And Entreprenurial Immigrants
In recent times, there has been a confluence of diverse events, if stitched together, make immigration reform a virtual no brainer even if we have yet to come out of the economic doldrums. Indeed, immigration reform in favor of skilled immigration, even if it is piecemeal and not comprehensive, can stimulate our economy in unimaginable [...] Read more »
Pope Benedict XVI Backs U.S. Bishops’ Commitment To Immigration Reform
Surrounded by bishops and cardinals, Pope Benedict XVI waves to faithful as he arrives at the Jose Marti International airport in Havana, Tuesday, March 27, 2012. His plane arrived in Havana following a day in eastern Cuba. VATICAN CITY — Pope Benedict XVI has praised the “great generosity” of American Catholics in welcoming new immigrants [...] Read more »
Comprehensive immigration reform would win politically
President Obama’s inability to pass much-needed comprehensive immigration reform could cost him the 2012 election. Though recent news of a rebounding economy, coupled with Republican Party infighting suggest otherwise, the Hispanic vote is neither uniform nor clearly aligned with the Democratic Party. If Hispanics fail to support the president in four key swing states — [...] Read more »
More Green Cards, Not H-1B Visas, Is the Real Fix
U.S. News & World Report asks: “Should H-1B visas be easier to get?” It’s the wrong question. A bit of historical perspective may help. I was the chairman of the immigration subcommittee in 1990 when we defined the basic structure of the H-1B category in the Immigration Act of 1990, including the original 65,000 annual [...] Read more »
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