Congress makes room for more foreigners for high tech-jobs

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Congress makes room for more foreigners for high tech-jobs

http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2004-11-22-high-tech-foreigners_x.htm

11/22/2004 7:42 PM

WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress is letting employers hire another 20,000
foreign high-tech workers under a special visa program after
businesses reached the annual ceiling on the first day of the
government's fiscal year.

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The coalition includes companies such as Microsoft, Texas Instruments,
Hewlett Packard and Motorola.

For example, of the 424 students who earned master's degrees in
engineering at the University of Texas at Austin last year, 228 were
foreign students; of the 135 who earned doctorates in engineering, 81
were foreigners, Boyd said.

Dan Kane, a spokesman for the Homeland Security Department's
Citizenship and Immigration Service, said the exemptions for foreign
students will be applicable this year. Rep. Lamar Smith, R-Texas, and
Sen. Saxby Chambliss, R-Ga., led the effort to include them in the
spending bill.

[Walt Starr]

1. That's so they can be brought into this country and be trained

by the people whose jobs they will be getting.

[Moderator]

2. Duplicate

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=1013830