No Exceptions For Tech Industry: High Skilled Visas Now Tied To Comprehensive Reform

Powerful technology lobbies expected special treatment this week from Congress and got a tough lesson in rejection: there will be no more high-skilled work visas without comprehensive immigration reform. The probable failure of the STEMS Jobs Act, which would add 55,000 work visas for science-oriented immigrants, has become a casualty of war over the low-skilled immigrants dilemma. Despite $14.7M in campaign donations from the Bay Area and a full-court press from the likes of Aol* founder, St...