{"id":20486,"date":"2014-04-07T19:12:23","date_gmt":"2014-04-07T23:12:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=20486"},"modified":"2014-04-07T19:12:23","modified_gmt":"2014-04-07T23:12:23","slug":"tech-industry-may-cut-a-deal-on-immigration-killing-gang-of-eight-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/20486\/tech-industry-may-cut-a-deal-on-immigration-killing-gang-of-eight-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"Tech Industry May Cut a Deal on Immigration, Killing Gang of Eight Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"

With the Senate\u2019s Gang of Eight bill dead-on-arrival in the House of Representatives, the tech industry may be ready to break ranks and cut a deal<\/a>.<\/p>\n

So far, Silicon Valley \u2013 one of the wealthiest segments backing comprehensive immigration reform \u2013 has held out hope that their goal of expanding H-1B visas for foreign-born workers will come to fruition when House Republicans finally get around to passing the Senate\u2019s bill.<\/p>\n

But with the Gang\u2019s bill looking less and less likely to get even a vote in the House, immigration\u2019s tech supporters are exploring other options. The announcement came in the form of an op-ed published<\/a> by the leader of Compete America, the industry\u2019s immigration-focused political action committee. In it he called on both houses of Congress to pass the SKILLS Act, which would give Compete everything it wants, but would also leave its members with no real reason to stay in Washington pushing for the rest of the Senate\u2019s bill.<\/p>\n

That possibility drew a swift rebuke from Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), who wrote in a letter<\/a> to Compete America, \u201cI am troubled by recent statements suggesting that some in the technology industry may shift their focus to passage of stand-alone legislation that would only resolve the industry\u2019s concerns.\u201d<\/p>\n

The daylight emerging between the tech industry and its comprehensive immigration reform allies presents an opportunity to House Republicans, says Byron York. \u201cIf the House were to pass H-1B expansion, the GOP would win support from at least some in the tech world. And Democrats would be standing in the way of admitting more high-skilled workers into this country.\u201d<\/p>\n

Liberals like Durbin know that the only way to legalize a controversial pathway to citizenship is to hold hostage popular reforms like expanding the H-1B visa pool. This turn of events may be just what House Republicans need to make that ploy crystal clear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With the Senate\u2019s Gang of Eight bill dead-on-arrival in the House of Representatives, the tech industry may be ready to break ranks and cut a deal. So far, Silicon Valley \u2013 one of the wealthiest segments backing comprehensive immigration reform \u2013 has held out hope that their goal of expanding H-1B visas for foreign-born workers […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4100,981,1447,3843,1406,4484],"class_list":["post-20486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-gang-of-eight","tag-immigration","tag-reform","tag-silicon-valley","tag-tech","tag-visa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20486"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20490,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20486\/revisions\/20490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}