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Why Silicon Valley Needs Immigration
On this episode of "Uncanny Valley," the hosts discuss how limiting foreign-born workers hurts Silicon Valley.
Since day one of the current administration immigration policy has been overhauled, the asylum process was virtually shut down, the obscure Aliens Enemy Act was invoked to deport hundreds of people, and birthright citizenship is being challenged in the US Supreme Court. All of this, it's instilling fear amongst some entrepreneurs and tech workers in the Valley, and it's creating a climate of uncertainty where people who seemed so committed and excited to come here and build their companies here and contribute to the technological environment here are now rethinking that because of what's going on with visa applications. There's been a lot of backlash to the program, and it's hard to know sometimes whether it's coming from this kind of vitriolic or potentially racist place around how people feel about immigrants versus, "No, I'm actually in support of this because it's good for the US economy and the tech industry, but the process is broken."
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