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NPR: Bill Gates Targets Visa Rules for Tech Workers
Posted by Jeff from NPR
The Programmers Guild, a professional society, also criticizes Gates for facilitating the erosion of U.S. competitiveness by using the H1-B program to "train a critical mass of foreign workers within the U.S." and then using "these workers to establish overseas operations."
Microsoft | Revamp visa system, Gates urges Congress | Seattle Times Newspaper
Posted by Jeff from Seattle Times
Lawmakers have introduced bills to expand the program. But pro-immigration legislation is making little headway in this election year, and the H-1B program has been criticized by some for taking away U.S. jobs, lowering wages or being abused by foreign companies in the United States to bring in foreign workers.
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