Well, in so many words...
By Katie Hoffmann - Jun 14, 2011
Intel Corp. (INTC) and Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) may have help in their multiyear effort to bring more high-skill workers from overseas into the U.S. under a bill Representative Zoe Lofgren introduced today.
Lofgren, a Democrat from California, introduced a bill that would provide green cards, or permanent residence, to more foreign students who earn at least a master’s degree in science or engineering at U.S. universities. It also gives green cards to foreign entrepreneurs who start companies employing five or more U.S. citizens.
Technology companies, from Intel and Microsoft to International Business Machines Corp. (IBM), have backed efforts to make it easier for scientists and engineers from abroad to come to the U.S. Many scientists come to the U.S. for their post- graduate education and leave when they can’t get a visa to stay, said Peter Cleveland, Intel’s vice president of global public policy.
“We drop the ball when we let these individuals take this education elsewhere,” he said in a phone interview. “We should have them stay here and work for Apple, work for Facebook, work for Intel.”
Graduates with master’s degrees and higher in science, technology, engineering and math who get jobs related to their degrees would qualify for green cards under Lofgren’s bill. Entrepreneurs from abroad would get a temporary residence and could petition to stay permanently after two years if their businesses are still open and employing U.S. citizens.
Republican Co-Sponsor
Lofgren is looking for a Republican to co-sponsor the bill.
“I hope we will have Republican support,” she said in a phone interview today.
The bill is broader than past efforts, said Ron Hira, an associate professor of public policy at the Rochester Institute of Technology, citing other bills that haven’t been passed. In 2009, Representative Jeff Flake, a Republican from Arizona, introduced a bill that would have allowed in more foreign graduates with doctorate degrees. It never left the House Judiciary Committee.
“There’s a lot more master’s than Ph.Ds,” Hira said.
Current laws cap the number of employment-based green cards at 140,000 per year. Under the bill, the green cards for graduates and entrepreneurs wouldn’t count against the quotas.
Originally, I was tempted to post this and call it a night:
EMAIL Katie anytime, I hear that she is into "rough trade", and you won't be able to reach her by phone because she probably HAS MAYOR BLOOMBERG'S DICK IN HER MOUTH: khoffmann4@bloomberg.net.
Also for those insurgents with time on their hands, this is her boss: pelstrom@bloomberg.net
They are both collaborators sucking off Slumdog Slave Trader Michael Bloomberg, who seems to think WE NEED MORE FUCKING SLUMDOGS.
Hey Katie, please stop sucking Mayor Bloomberg's dick, please?
But then I started doing some cyber-stalking of Katie Hoffman.
It really is sad to see such a pretty girl shilling for the Indian Outsourcing Regime. I mean, her she is, all innocent and demure, supposedly "covering" technology for Bloomberg, not knowing that she is being used as a pawn for slumdog slave traders like her boss. Shit, she looks like my daughter in 10 years. They sent her out there and said "Here, babe, go write this propaganda piece fed to us by NASSCOM." She probably has no clue about WHAT THE FUCK SHE IS WRITING ABOUT. To throw the locals a bone, her boss Peter Elstrom says "BTW, go interview this Indian dude, Hira, give him 2 lines and Zoe Lofgren 100 lines, and then you won't look biased and get, uh, death threats, or nasty emails from those 'antis'."
What would you do if your daughter, say, started fucking the Nazis while you were a covert Jew running a little bakery in 1942 Paris? Cheer her on? Say: "Hey sweetie, go FUCK THE ENEMY!"
I don't think so.
But then I saw Katie's cute fuckin' picture, and was tempted to superimpose the usual cross-hair on the .gif, and then thought otherwise. Shit, this is AN AMERICAN WOMAN, MIND-RAPED BY THE COLLABORATORS. She doesn't know any better! She has been brainwashed into thinking that we need slumdogs, and her sponsors at INTEL and MICROSOFT basically SIGN HER FUCKING PAYCHECKS.
HOW DARE YOU, Peter Elstrom and Michael Bloomberg? How dare you rape the ethical soul of a young American writer like Katie Hoffman and turn her into a shill for your pro-Slumdog, anti-American techie agenda?
HAVE YOU NO FUCKING SHAME?
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