AZ's own Gabrielle Giffords votes to increase foreign work visas

[Joshua Zeidner]

On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 1:30 PM, David Huerta <huertanix at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
>  > "The Innovation Employment Act, introduced by Representative Gabrielle
>  > Giffords, an Arizona Democrat, late Thursday, would increase the cap
>  > in H-1B visas from 65,000 a year to 130,000 a year. In addition, there
>  > would be no cap on H-1B applications for foreign graduate students
>  > attending U.S. colleges and studying science, technology and related
>  > fields. Currently, there's a 20,000-a-year cap on visas for graduate
>  > students in all fields."
>
>
>  From what I've heard, ASU had 0 American citizens begin a graduate
>  program in Computer Science in the fall of 2007. (I wanted to make it
>  1, but the GRE math protion thought otherwise).

 not a surprising number in the least.

>  It seems to me that
>  the specific case for lifting quotas for foreign graduate students
>  will help bolster the *existance* of graduate and even undergraduate
>  computer science education in Arizona, which would, without foreign
>  students, probably atrophy itself out of existance for lack of
>  popularity and tuition revenue.

  keep in mind theyre not necessarily talking about study visas.
Theyre talking about permanent right to work for all graduates  of
American universities.  So this adds 100K+/year visas to the number
cited above.  There is no doubt in my mind that the upper management
of CS departments nationwide are helping this cap increase move along,
as this is seen as a way to keep their departments solvent.  Arizona
is currently looking at a major fiscal crisis.  Is it time to be
handing out jobs to non-Americans?

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