Summary
High-tech leaders, including the former heads of AOL and Mozilla, are organizing a "virtual march for immigration reform" aimed at pressuring lawmakers to make extreme changes to our nation's immigration laws. This effort is focused on making it easier for the U.S. to attract highly educated immigrants and those aiming to work in high-tech fields. Our leaders have been complaining for a long time of the difficulties of bringing high-tech workers to the U.S. This issue is expected to be addressed through immigration legislation. This action, partially devised by New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, aims to collect supporters to flood lawmakers' offices via Twitter, Facebook, by phone and in person.
Reason for choosing this article
I chose this article because I know how prominent the issues of immigration are in our country. This article stood out to me because I thought many of our leaders are against immigration, but this article made me realize that there are leaders in our country who are actually pro-immigration. The leaders the article talks about are mostly from Silicon Valley, which is where I grew up. This surprised me that they want people to immigrate to our country because I thought we have enough people in our country, especially in Silicon Valley. It already seems overpopulated.
Personal and Social Values at stake and ethical implications
If laws are made to allow more tech-savvy people into our country, then there will be less available jobs for us. I'm not against immigration, but I don't think that laws should be made for immigration specifically for workers in technology. Also our unemployment rate is already too high. Allowing more people in the country won't solve this. Educating the uneducated and unemployed will solve this.
Credibility of its sources
This article is from USAToday and is Copyrighted by the Associated Press.
High-tech leaders, including the former heads of AOL and Mozilla, are organizing a "virtual march for immigration reform" aimed at pressuring lawmakers to make extreme changes to our nation's immigration laws. This effort is focused on making it easier for the U.S. to attract highly educated immigrants and those aiming to work in high-tech fields. Our leaders have been complaining for a long time of the difficulties of bringing high-tech workers to the U.S. This issue is expected to be addressed through immigration legislation. This action, partially devised by New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, aims to collect supporters to flood lawmakers' offices via Twitter, Facebook, by phone and in person.
Reason for choosing this article
I chose this article because I know how prominent the issues of immigration are in our country. This article stood out to me because I thought many of our leaders are against immigration, but this article made me realize that there are leaders in our country who are actually pro-immigration. The leaders the article talks about are mostly from Silicon Valley, which is where I grew up. This surprised me that they want people to immigrate to our country because I thought we have enough people in our country, especially in Silicon Valley. It already seems overpopulated.
Personal and Social Values at stake and ethical implications
If laws are made to allow more tech-savvy people into our country, then there will be less available jobs for us. I'm not against immigration, but I don't think that laws should be made for immigration specifically for workers in technology. Also our unemployment rate is already too high. Allowing more people in the country won't solve this. Educating the uneducated and unemployed will solve this.
Credibility of its sources
This article is from USAToday and is Copyrighted by the Associated Press.