Bill Gates is arguing that if immigration curbs are put in place, it’ll hurt competition in the market.
Bill Gates, the chairman of Micro≠soft, on Wednesday warned that restrictions on the number of skilled workers allowed to enter the US put the country’s competitiveness at risk.
The comments marked the latest attack on restrictive US immigration policies by the technology industry, which is facing a shortage of skilled workers even as demand for their skills is increasing.
Speaking before the Senate committee on health, education, labour and pensions, Mr Gates said that tighter US immigration policies – governed partly by concerns over terrorism – were “driving away the world’s best and brightest precisely when we need them most”.
“It makes no sense to tell well-trained, highly skilled individuals, many of whom are educated at our top colleges and universities, that the United States does not welcome or value them,” Mr Gates said. “America will find it infinitely more difficult to maintain its technological leadership if it shuts out the very people who are most able to help us compete.”
Anyone care to share just one example of Microsoft doing anything that promoted competition?
Hell, just read some of the crap that came out of the Comes v. Microsoft case and then tell me what Billy has done to promote competitiveness.
[tags]bill gates, microsoft, hypocrite[/tags]