Bill Gates Speaks Out Against Immigration Policies

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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Re:Shortage myth

[GigsVT]

The problem isn't the job market, it's the CS programs. CS is not a programming degree, and even if it were, a BS degree isn't worth much more than the paper it's printed on.

Skilled programmers that are smart skip college. You'll have 4 years of experience while your friends have a worthless piece of paper, 4 years of lost income, and a $40,000 hole in their wallets.

Re:I made billions- but you'll be replaced

[Marxist Hacker 42]

Why...why...that's the most un-American post I've ever seen!! You sound like one of 'em stinkin' socialists. But seriously, America has always been about (1) capitalism and (2) good business. What you suggest is quite the opposite -- it would be bad for business and is anything but capitalism. You're talking protectionism, which goes against the American ideal of "best price/quality ratio wins". Perhaps a lot of outsourced work is crap, but a lot of it isn't, and if it was ALL crap, well then business wouldn't exist anymore would it?

Quite the opposite- you just need to look at WalMart and what it's done to the American Manufacturing industry. Just about EVERYTHING WalMart imports from China is crap that will need replacing 3 times a year today- and they did it by forcing American companies to such a low price point that they had to close the factories here and outsource.

Just look at Vista and you'll see that Microsoft's overreliance on H1b labor and outsourcing has done the same thing to software.