Zuckerberg Lobbies For More Liberal Immigration Policies

An anonymous reader writes "Mark Zuckerberg, along with other notables such as Google's Eric Schmidt, Yahoo's Marissa Mayer and Reid Hoffman, co-founder of Linkedin, has launched a new immigration reform lobbying group called FWD.us. In an editorial in the Washington Post, Zuckerberg claims that immigrants are the key to a future knowledge-based economy in a United States which currently has 'a strange immigration policy for a nation of immigrants.' As expected, they are calling for more of the controversial H-1B visas which reached their maximum limit in less than a week this year, but those aren't the only things they're looking to change."

Comments

Re:Indigenous vs. Immigrants?

[ScottCooperDotNet]

Perhaps Zuckerberg could explain what the indienous population of the US is not capable of knowing that immigrants know.

How to spell? :P

Americans generally do not want to do STEM degrees, which many other cultures value more highly than we do.

Re:FWD.us?

[QRDeNameland]

I also thought this was particularly galling:

"Given all this, why do we kick out the more than 40% of math and science graduate students who are not US citizens after educating them?"

Wait a sec...*who* educated them? Does the US gov't typically pay a foreign student's tuition, or do they have to either pay their own way or manage a grant/scholarship? My guess would be the latter case would be the overwhelming majority, with the only role of gov't in most cases being to grant a student visa. It's one thing to suggest that maybe 'we' should have program to help convert student visas to work visas, but to say we are "kicking out" people who were granted visas solely for education because they finished their education, which it is dubiously implied that "we" paid for, is simply dishonest.