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Bill Gates Speaks Out Against Immigration Policies

Posted by samzenpus on from the losing-our-skillz dept.

Jeian writes "None other than Bill Gates has spoken out against tighter immigration policies in the US. According to Gates, the US is losing skilled immigrants to other countries that are easier to immigrate to. Among his comments: "I personally witness the ill effects of these policies on an almost daily basis at Microsoft.""

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  1. 640,000 immigrants by biocute · · Score: 5, Funny

    Mr Gates did mention that 640K skilled immigrants ought to be enough for USA.

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  2. Translation by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Among his comments: "I personally witness the ill effects of these policies on an almost daily basis at Microsoft.""

    In other words, I think my employees suck.

  3. the future by User+956 · · Score: 5, Funny

    According to Gates, the US is losing skilled immigrants to other countries that are easier to immigrate to.

    Not to mention the US ban on human cloning. At this rate, with no immigrant labor, and no clone slaves, our future workforce is going to be heavily reliant on robots. And we all know how well that always turns out.

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    1. Re:the future by Gryle · · Score: 4, Funny

      Better get your Old Glory insurance policy quick then!

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  4. I say by einhverfr · · Score: 2, Funny

    we revoke the citizenship of all immigrants and anyone decended from immigrants in the last four hundred years.

    Wait....

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  5. Immigrants are very important by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Who else is gonna date our fat women?

  6. You are misquoting him... by jkrise · · Score: 2, Funny

    He said 655360 immigrants, plus 393216 Extended immigrants. Also, he is still factoring large prime numbers....

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  7. Fettish? by Tablizer · · Score: 1, Funny

    Mod me down if you must, but I think Gates may have a fettish for young Indian boys or the like. He keeps yammering on and on about visa workers and "skilled immigrants". It seems more than a business issue at this point. Next you know he'll be found on a sailboat to India wearing astronaut diapers.

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  8. Re:I made billions- but you'll be replaced by Pray_4_Mojo · · Score: 2, Funny

    Woo hoo! One more year till I'm over the hill career wise. And I've yet to use any Java or RoR for production web apps! And I've just started using AJAX! I'm glad my feeble brain won't be able to keep up with the pace of change and learn new techniques. It was a bitch doing that this past 25 years!