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Tech Industry Lobbies For Looser Immigration
- The Hill, Friday, March 15, 2013 11:56 AM
Desperate for engineering expertise, top Web companies are appealing to the White House and Congress to reform existing immigration rules for such highly-skilled workers. As The Hill’s
Hillicon Valley blog reports, the group includes 100 chief executives, including Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer. “The tech heavyweights [say] the need to hire and
retain skilled foreign and domestic workers is one of the top economic challenges facing the country.”
