New visa proposal to help create the next big thing (BBC) {yeah right}

[eppur_se_muova]

By Maggie Shiels
Technology reporter, BBC News, Silicon Valley

A proposal that will make it easier for foreign entrepreneurs in the US to start the next Google or Yahoo will be debated in the new year.

Congressman Jared Polis has proposed a start-up visa to entice "foreigners with good ideas" to stay in the US.

The issue has been gathering steam in Silicon Valley where half of all tech company founders are immigrants, according to Duke University research.

The idea is part of a proposed overhaul of the US immigration system.
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Some critics fear that making it easier for entrepreneurs to set up shop will hurt Americans by taking jobs away from them.
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more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8417510.stm

[JDPriestly]

1. The problem is determining who is a true entrepreneur and who is not.

It used to be easy for people who could show they had a certain amount of money which was considered enough to start a business to enter the country. How about encouraging American entrepreneurs.

[divideetimpera]

2. now you are being business-unfriendly

and you know that immigration is friendly to business, bringing down wages and all. You like lower wages, dontcha? Don't you know the 10th Commeandment of America? Thou shalt speak no evil of immigration, for immigration lowers wages and thus increases greatly the wallets of the rich. So speaketh the rich, all hail immigration, all hail the rich.....