14 DAY TRIAL // A letter has been posted on SCRIBD, one that is signed by Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, Google’s Eric Schmidt, Yahoo’s Marissa Mayer, and many others.
In it, the chief executives ask the US Congress and White House to pass immigration reforms, like the Immigration Innovation Act and the Startup Visa Act that have already been introduced in the Senate.
Tens of thousands of jobs are going unfilled because there aren't sufficient job applicants that actually know what they are doing. 10,000 are from IBM, Intel, Microsoft, Oracle, and Qualcomm alone.
There are over 100 signatories, most of them high-profile names in the industry.
The president may just have to force a vote on his own proposal if Republicans keep stonewalling all the suggestions. Investment in technical education in the US will be out to a vote as well.