How Immigration Uncertainty Threatens America’s Tech Dominance

Re:How Immigration Uncertainty Threatens America’s Tech Domi... by eli_gottlieb on Thursday February 02, 2017 @11:04AM (#13551479)

>Kicking the door behind you closed once you've got yours or because you're afraid new immigrants will take your job is hypocrisy of a terrible kind for a nation that was founded on immigration.

What about immigration from Kansas to California? We all know these tech companies prefer to hire from Stanford, MIT, and each-other. Why not just hire the proverbial kid from Brooklyn if we're so concerned about migration and diversity?

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Re:How Immigration Uncertainty Threatens America’s Tech Domi... by vmarsy on Thursday February 02, 2017 @01:10PM (#13552872)

> We all know these tech companies prefer to hire from Stanford, MIT, and each-other.

Maybe you know, but around tech companies, I see more people from Georgia, Texas, Michigan, South Carolina ... than from Stanford or MIT.

Tech companies need people with tech skills, so if University of Kansas produces skilled CS graduates, they'll also work in tech companies. If they don't, Kansas kids go study to Michigan, Texas, Georgia, MIT, Stanford, and end up working in those tech companies.

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Re:How Immigration Uncertainty Threatens America’s Tech Domi... by jacquesm on Thursday February 02, 2017 @11:29AM (#13551763)

> Why not just hire the proverbial kid from Brooklyn if we're so concerned about migration and diversity?

The diversity is just a fig leaf, the migration angle is mostly about money and very rarely about skill.

Also, not everybody is willing to relocate for a job and people from poor countries have usually much less to lose.

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Re:How Immigration Uncertainty Threatens America’s Tech Domi... by eli_gottlieb on Thursday February 02, 2017 @11:37AM (#13551841)

>The diversity is just a fig leaf, the migration angle is mostly about money and very rarely about skill.

My point exactly.

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