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UPDATE (5:08 p.m.): The House voted 257-158 on the Smith bill -- a majority but not enough to reach the 2/3rds threshold required for the suspension rules under which the bill was being considered. There is a skills gap in today’s workforce. To remain competitive, the U.S. must increase the number of potential workers who hold higher degrees in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics [...]
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ITI and TechElect have long advocated for high-skilled immigration reform. The 21st century demands bright and creative minds that are able to think big and turn innovative ideas into life-changing goods and services. Unfortunately, outdated U.S. immigration policies are keeping the skilled talent we need in the U.S. either out of the country or from starting new business ventures. Too often, we [...]
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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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Bloomberg today came out in favor of bipartisan Senate legislation that has ITI's backing -- the recently introduced Startup 2.0 Act. In its editorial, Bloomberg highlights the competitive disadvantage that the United States faces because of an arbitrary, outmoded immigration system. During the next five years, 100,000 immigrants – many with advanced degrees – will leave America and take their innovative [...]
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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 [...]
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The tech sector’s seemingly exponential growth has increased our nation’s need for a highly skilled workforce. More than any other industry, our sector’s ability to grow depends largely on highly educated tech-savvy staff, which many companies argue, isn’t readily available in the United States. Fortunately, Senators from both parties are beginning to recognize the need to reform our outdated immigration [...]
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We might end up calling last night's State of the Union address the "tech talk". The President's speech touched on a litany of technology issues, making it sound as if he was pitching TechElect for us. Instead of rehashing the President's speech point by point, we would like to focus on two issues he raised -STEM and immigration reform. Both issues often receive broad, bipartisan support and are [...]
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