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Silicon Valley Lobbies Congress for Immigration Reform
  
WASHINGTON (KCBS/AP)  -- Executives from Google and other high-tech companies today urged lawmakers in Washington to increase the number of visas allotted each year for skilled immigrants.

About eight percent of Google employees are immigrants working under six-year H1B Visas, according to Lazlo Bock, vice president of People Operations at Google.

With the government bent on tightening U.S. borders and workplace regulations, competing business interests are lobbying Congress to legalize the foreign-born workers they most need, even if it means hurting other sectors.

Industries that need highly skilled, well-educated workers are pitted against those that want lower-wage, minimally skilled employees. All of them are jealously eyeing the agriculture sector, whose powerful lobby secured a separate ``AgJobs'' bill likely to provide ample numbers of immigrant farm workers for decades to come.


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