Brian Halla, CEO of National Semiconductor and former chairman of the Semiconductor Industry Association on the debate about H1-Bs:
"The irony is that people think they’re taking jobs away from Americans. They’re actually creating jobs. If you look at the industry, Andy Grove would be sent home to Hungary today. Yahoo! was started by Jerry Yang from Taiwan. Google was started by Sergey (Brin) from Russia. eBay was started by Pierre Omidyar. The way we caught up with Russia in the space race was to use Werner von Braun’s Redstone rockets because our Vanguards blew up on the launch pad. Not only could we not do it again today. We didn’t even do it then. It was a bunch of foreign nationals we brought in. So did they create jobs or take jobs. They created hundreds of thousands of jobs."
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