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>lso, numerous H1-Bs are the core of companies like Google, Microsoft, Facebook etc. How would things have looked without any of them? Google would not exist i
by IndianAstronaut 12y ago
>lso, numerous H1-Bs are the core of companies like Google, Microsoft, Facebook etc. How would things have looked without any of them?
Google would not exist if the US immigration policies were always strict. Sergey Brin is an immigrant. Neither would lots of companies.
http://www.economist.com/news/business/21576101-start-ups-founded-immigrants-are-creating-jobs-all-over-america-jobs-machine http://www.economist.com/news/business/21576101-start-ups-fo...
- greenyoda 12y agoSergey Brin came to the U.S. with his family at the age of six from the USSR.[1] His family was probably admitted to the U.S. due to the religious persecution they faced: "Michael Brin [his father] claims Communist Party heads barred Jews from upper professional ranks by denying them entry to universities, and that Jews were excluded from the physics departments in particular."[2] So his story is not very relevant to the discussion of H1-B visas and tech worker shortages. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Brin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Brin [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Brin#Childhood_in_the_Soviet_Union https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Brin#Childhood_in_the_S...