Super billionaires aren t happy apparently… They declare we need to import more foreign workers. Mr. Gates says we need to let more and more people into our country to take those kinds of jobs.
— Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., on an op-ed co-written by Bill Gates that includes a call for higher limits on H-1B visas. Sessions comments on the Senate floor came Thursday, the same day Microsoft — the giant company co-founded and now chaired by Gates — announced 18,000 job cuts. However, the job cuts will happen worldwide, including in China, Finland, Hungary, not just in the United States. Hillicon Valley points out that Sessions is a vocal critic of immigration reform, a pet cause of the tech industry. Gates is urging the House to pass the immigration-reform bill, which the Senate has already passed.
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