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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