I can hear it in your sotto voice.

What drama do we have here.

Some one dies. Some one has an accident. Some one loses. But Kat and Nancy go to school in a country where school’s not a given. Their future depends on navigating the tech world, from a world where tech is used but not understood.  In my business I deal with people seeing the US through new perspectives, as outsiders trying to blend in. I see it when I travel overseas, and see America from the outside. Women are increasingly striking out on their own, crossing oceans alone to find that pot of gold in America. And families too. They know they have to pay tax, at home they pay more. They still have the flow to send some $$$ back home.

Why do we limit H1B visas to 65,000 while our tech industry clamors for hundreds of thousands?

What possibly reason is there to hold back the US economy by limiting the influx of the next generation’s engineers? Would you rather the brightest minds, the next-gen code, get developed somewhere else, not here, because you held back the educated horde and diverted them to….China? The next hungry and developing superpower? Are you that scared of innovation?