Re:Vancouver tech surges as U.S. immigration reform idles
by jbarham on Monday August 11, 2014 @01:14AM
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> Maybe you think that Sergey Brin and Paul Graham stole their jobs from some hard working, native born Americans.
Straw man. Sergey Brin didn't immigrate to the US, his parents did and he came along for the ride as a child.
Nobody begrudges the success of children of immigrants to the US (which by definition is everyone but the native Americans), but middle aged, unemployed American programmers may well resent companies that claim there is a shortage of programmers whilst stuffing their IT departments with foreign visa workers who won't rock the boat or ask for a raise because their continued residency in the US depends on employer sponsorship.
Straw man. Sergey Brin didn't immigrate to the US, his parents did and he came along for the ride as a child.
Nobody begrudges the success of children of immigrants to the US (which by definition is everyone but the native Americans), but middle aged, unemployed American programmers may well resent companies that claim there is a shortage of programmers whilst stuffing their IT departments with foreign visa workers who won't rock the boat or ask for a raise because their continued residency in the US depends on employer sponsorship.