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Thursday, March 19, 2015

Google Executive: Split High-Skilled Immigration from Other Reforms

The Hill
By Mario Trujillo
March 18, 2015

Google's executive chairman Eric Schmidt is calling on Congress to separate high-skilled immigration reform from other comprehensive changes.

"All I'm asking is separate out this specific thing which will materially improve economic growth, it is good for many, many industries not just our own, it's good for politicians, more revenue more jobs," he said during a conversation Wednesday at the American Enterprise Institute.

At a later point, he added, congress can "deal with the other immigration issue, which are very serious and very important, separately."

Schimdt said there is widespread support for increasing the number of high-skilled — or H-1B — visas. But lawmakers have tried for decades to attach those reforms to more politically difficult immigration issues, like a path to citizenship.

The technology industry has been making the case to separate high-skilled immigration out for the past two decades, he lamented

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