
Give Infosys a break
Having petty stories, like this Infosys visa issue, being blown up in the media is only causing negative emotions and xenophobia to be stirred up needlessly in this year’s political melting-pot. We operate in a global business climate these days, in case anyone hasn’t noticed… it’s time to embrace and compete, not resist and fall further behind.

TVU Immigration Scam
From The Hindu This could become one of the largest immigration frauds to ever hit the U.S. university system With 95% of the students involved said to be of Indian origin, hundreds may face deportation Tri Valley University, here in the Bay Area is involved in what might be the biggest immigration frauds with student […]

(Mobile) Labo(u)r Day!
I have written before that US immigration policy is dated – we focus on country based quotas, family reunification, lotteries, and there is way too much angst about the social cost of Mexican migrant labor. We have lost sight of an increasingly mobile global workforce which does not necessarily want to immigrate but wants to […]

Immigration policy and the future of work
It is tough to ignore immigration talk given all the noise coming out of Arizona and Washington. But I have been thinking even more about it, with a recent trip to Ireland and the GigaOm event last week on the “future of work”. I wrote earlier about my observations about how internationally mobile my wife’s […]