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Tuesday, March 25, 2008

Lack of H-1B Visas affecting New York City’s Global Standing?

From Greg Siskind’s blog:

Businesses Say New York’s Clout Is Emigrating, With Visa Policies to Blame

By PATRICK McGEEHAN and NINA BERNSTEIN
Published:
March 24, 2008


New York officials have long taken pride in the city’s status as a global gateway. But lately, senior executives of some of the country’s biggest corporations, like Alcoa, have been complaining that American immigration policies are thwarting New York’s ability to compete with other world capitals.

Every big employer in the city, it seems, can cite an example of high-paying jobs that had to be relocated to foreign cities because the people chosen to fill them could not gain entry to the United States. >>read on


1 comments:

Anonymous said...

This only shows how blatently idiotic and destructive our immigration policies are. And the xenophobic groups calling for immigration restrictions seem to care very little about the succes of United States due to immigrants and more about there own hatred for them. This article does not surprise me.

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