Microsoft chairman on US Immigration policies on skilled workers.


	Microsoft chairman on US Immigration policies on skilled workers.

Yasir

3-8-2007 11:42 PM

256 views

tags:

microsoft, bill gates, policy, programming, work

Add a Comment

Login to Comment. Not a member yet? Sign up

Easy Way to Request Hotfix from Microsoft

Google's new web browser

From Snapshots, a 3-D View - Amazing New T...

Silverlight 2 Beta Controls Source Code Av...

Computers cause abnormal brain growth - pr...

Cool Cuil Search Engine

More clips from Yasir

25 Websites to watch

MAmmoth Skeleton auction

Duck born with four legs.

Today's Top Clips

visit the Top Clips page

View the Top Clips from March 8, 2007

Embed This Clip In Your Site...

<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/efd6282f-3772-4cf7-8999-7fe519de6a55/327E012D-2AE8-464F-AEE2-23D2C89E73EF/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.hardbeatnews.com/editor/RTE/my_documents/my_files/details.asp?newsid=12151" href="http://www.hardbeatnews.com/editor/RTE/my_documents/my_files/details.asp?newsid=12151" style="font-size: 11px;">www.hardbeatnews.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.hardbeatnews.com/editor/RTE/my_documents/my_files/details.asp?newsid=12151">Gates this week appeared before the Senate’s committee on health, education, labor and pensions and insisted that the policy cap on skilled workers allowed into the country annually was "driving away the world's best and brightest precisely when we need them most."</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.hardbeatnews.com/editor/RTE/my_documents/my_files/details.asp?newsid=12151">Gates, whose company employs many foreign skilled programmers, insisted that the US technology industry is suffering from a lack of skilled workers while demand for them is on the rise. <SPAN> </SPAN>"It makes no sense to tell well-trained, highly skilled individuals, many of whom are educated at our top colleges and universities, that the United States does not welcome or value them," he told the Senate committee. "America will find it infinitely more difficult to maintain its technological leadership if it shuts out the very people who are most able to help us compete."</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.hardbeatnews.com/editor/RTE/my_documents/my_files/details.asp?newsid=12151">Current immigration policy limits US visas for skilled foreign workers to 65,000 annually.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/327E012D-2AE8-464F-AEE2-23D2C89E73EF/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

Clipmarks: Home; New Clips; Top Clips; Dashboard

Popular Topics: News; Life; Science; Technology; Entertainment

Get Started: Sign Up; Install Clipping Tool; How Clipping Works; Clip-to-Blog™; ClipSearch

Tools and Resources: FAQ; ClipWeek; Top Clippers; Top Tags; Site Map

About Clipmarks: About Us; Contact; Blog; Copyright; Privacy; EULA

Search Options

Related Clips

More clips from Yasir

Today's Top Clips