Thursday, June 7, 2007
Google executives called on the U.S. government to raise the number of foreign worker visas , or H-1B status, by illustrating the plight of one of its founders.
In congressional testimony, Google VP of people operations Laszlo Bock cited the emigration of the parents of company co-founder Sergey Brin from the Soviet Union to the United States in 1979 as evidence that admitting foreign workers into the country benefits the U.S. economy.
"We opened our doors to Sergey's parents, a mathematician and an economist," said Bock. "Our educational system served Sergey well, he attended the University of Maryland and Stanford University. Our free market economy supported Sergey and Larry's entrepreneurship and rewarded it when they proved that they could turn their idea into a successful business. And we continue to maintain an environment where entrepreneurs, regardless of where they started, want to come here to build their companies."
Bock said that Google is not the only Silicon Valley company to benefit from immigration.
By: DocMemory
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