Posted on 03/31/2006 6:25:17 AM PST by adorno
In California's Silicon Valley, the superstars of the high-tech industry are all immigrants:
* Pierre Omidyar, born in France, founded eBay * Andrew Grove, born in Hungary, helped start Intel * Sergey Brin, from Russia, co-founded Google
Siva Singaram, from India, would like to follow in their footsteps.
"Currently I've got an idea for a startup company," says Singaram. "It's in the field of Internet advertising."
But because he has no green card, he'll have to return to India to start his company. Singaram and his wife Sangeetha, expecting a baby in May, are here on temporary skilled workers visas. By law, only 65,000 people a year can get those visas and it's difficult for them to become permanent residents.
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Mething that some of their complaints are retitless and more than likely are just looking for excuses for staying in the U.S.
OK - let us keep 12 million illegals in case one of them has a good idea and starts a business...
India has lots of IT folks, but generally in my experience their calibre is far lower that most US engineers. I have met some that are amazing.. but most are just bit pushers that will never be more than individual contributors.
darn
H1-B visas are supposed to be temporary. I don't see the problem.
The legal immmigrants working in Silicon Valley in the technical sector are quite different from those streaming in from Mexico. How many high-tech jobs are held by illegial immigrants from Mexico? Yeah, that's what I thought. None.
Mething = methinks
Perhaps if we did not have 20 to 25 million illegals here we could allow more illegal immigrants.
Gee, what a unique idea...
what would the internet be like without advertising?
He could always just stay here. It's not like the ICE is gonna knock on his door tomorrow or the next day or the next decade.........or century...........
Maybe because we have a free market in this country and a higher standard of living?
bttt
Oh, boo hoo! I suspect most Americans are willing to forego his "genius."
Really? There are no American high-tech superstars? What about Steve Jobs? Bill Gates? Are they the only two? I find that hard to believe.
The Indian guys are usually very law-abiding. If they are no longer allowed to stay, then they leave.
Maybe that's why we should let more in. We already have enough law-breakers, how about a few law-obeyers?
I don't see why Bush is pushing the Guest Worker program so hard. We already have one - it's called the H1B program. The problem is that it keeps getting expanded and I've never seen any of these people ever go home. They stay permanently!
i have been wanting to start a discussion about revamping the immigration policy from the current lottery system to one which gives preference to English speaking people from anywhere who have credentials in the higher sciences and mathematics.
I would go so far as to encourage companies to put together wish lists for people with particular skill sets in medicine and sciences and try to match them up with candidates(ala recruitment) overseas with promises of an accelerated naturalization system to those qualifying.
this is the basic idea with the reason being that the US should be dominant in all areas of scientific and medical advancement. to do this, we should bring the best the rest of the countries have here and let the capitalist system do what it does best.
He could always open a 7-11 store.......
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