{"id":433293,"date":"2017-01-29T09:32:00","date_gmt":"2017-01-29T05:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nhub.news\/?p=433293"},"modified":"2017-01-29T12:13:51","modified_gmt":"2017-01-29T10:13:51","slug":"silicon-valley-prepares-to-take-on-trump-over-immigration-agenda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nhub.news\/ru\/2017\/01\/silicon-valley-prepares-to-take-on-trump-over-immigration-agenda\/","title":{"rendered":"Silicon Valley prepares to take on Trump over immigration agenda"},"content":{"rendered":"

$\"NewsHub\"$ The president\u2019s aggressive immigration agenda has Silicon Valley preparing to take on Mr. Trump.
At issue: H-1B visas. Companies rely on them to recruit top talent from around the world.
\u201cThe immigration policy, in particular this visa program, is — I think it\u2019s very much on the table,\u201d said Jessica Levinson, a law professor at Loyola University. \u201cMy guess is it will be changed and it is very much up in the air.\u201d
President Trump Friday signed a controversial executive order to suspend all refugees from entering the U. S. while the administration tightens th…
Currently, the U. S. grants visas to 85,000 foreign workers a year through a lottery. But a draft of a proposed executive order published in The New York Times this week suggests change is coming. The administration wants to \u201cconsider ways to make the process for allocating H-1B visas more efficient and ensure that beneficiaries of the program are the best and the brightest.\u201d
Just how the administration would do that is what concerns Mike Grandinetti, chief marketing officer at Reduxio, a digital storage startup.
\u201cWe are looking to recruit at least 10 engineers and you know we can\u2019t afford to slow down… to continue to stay head of the big guys,\u201d he said.
More than half of the country\u2019s startup companies — worth more than a billion dollars — were founded by immigrants.
Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk is from South Africa, and two of the world\u2019s largest tech companies, Microsoft and Google, also have immigrant CEOs.
In a statement, Google says it\u2019s \u201cconcerned\u201d — a feeling now prominent in Silicon Valley.
\u201cEven if they\u2019re here legally, there\u2019s a level of paranoia,\u201d Grandinetti said.
The concern among some business leaders is that if tech companies can\u2019t bring in the best workers in the world, then they just might move their operation to countries where those workers are allowed.<\/p>\n

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