• MEDIA: Musk influence sparks fresh talk in Congress on high-skilled imm

    From John D Groenveld@21:1/5 to All on Fri Jan 24 11:59:24 2025
    Politico's Brendan Bordelon on what will be the Roy Beck NumbersUSA
    cumulative GPA for Donald Trump's endorsed members of Mike Johnson's
    House.GOV and John Thune's Senate.GOV: <URL:https://www.politico.com/news/2024/12/26/congress-high-tech-immigrants-00196009>
    | Sen. Todd Young (R-Ind.), a member of the Senate's four-person AI
    | working group and a longtime proponent of high-skilled immigrants,
    | said Congress can do two things at once: crack down on illegal
    | immigration while also clearing new pathways for foreign STEM
    | professionals.
    |
    | Young waved off questions about the powerful anti-immigrant current
    | in his party, instead noting that Musk himself is an immigrant.
    |
    | "America has benefited from Elon Musk and his amazing contributions
    | to our economy," Young told POLITICO. "He's the object lesson on how
    | high-skilled immigration can benefit our country, if done right."
    |
    | Rep. Bill Foster (D-Ill.), a longtime proponent of increases to
    | high-skilled immigration, said he's been "waiting for the stars to
    | align" -- and that Silicon Valley's rising influence on the GOP may
    | be what's needed to break the logjam and defeat the restrictionists.

    Housier Young:
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    John
    groenveld@acm.org
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