SAN JOSE, CA - Dear President Trump: On behalf of the 360 Member Companies who form the Silicon Valley Leadership Group, we are writing to urge you to immediately end the separation of children from their parents who have come…
SAN JOSE, CA – When it comes to highly-skilled immigrants, Bay Area voters take a strong positive view of their impact on the economy and our quality of life in the Bay Area. In a recent Silicon Valley Poll, seventy-eight percent…
SAN JOSE, CA – When provided a brief description of the DACA program, 85 percent of voters in the Bay Area said they would support a path to citizenship for Dreamers. Two-thirds “strongly support” a path to citizenship and only…
Here's food for thought . . . Immigration and innovation go hand-in-hand. From the founding of our country, the United States was built on the backs and with the brains of immigrants. This is only illuminated further in Silicon Valley,…
"The Silicon Valley Leadership Group, an organization of 400 employers with facilities in all 50 states and almost every Congressional District, urges the Trump Administration, House and Senate to unite around the freedoms upon which our nation was founded. Our…
Here's food for thought . . . Free trade strengthens America and America's workers. President Obama has invested seven years negotiating a free trade agreement - the Trans-Pacific Partnership - with 11 Asia-Pacific countries and the United States, representing 40…
Here's food for thought . . . Good things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle. Those famous and fitting words by President Abraham Lincoln, himself an inventor and entrepreneur, could not…
Here's food for thought . . . 95 percent of the consumer base for tech products is outside of the United States. Without free trade, our companies and workers lack access to the foreign markets on which American workers depend…
Here's food for thought … You can raise yourself up without tearing others down. On the same day, I recently found in my mailbox two separate letters. One from a prominent Democrat member of Congress and one from a top-tier…
Here's good for thought … "The lottery." A random lottery is not how America should recruit for talent. Yet a lottery system – the luck of the draw – is what the U.S. government believes is the best way for…