Compete America
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Compete America, The Alliance for a Competitive Workforce, is a coalition representing corporations, universities, research institutions and trade associations that advocates for reform of U.S. immigration policy
for highly educated foreign professionals.
Compete America supports the idea that scientists, researchers, innovators and engineers will always be in demand and will always drive economic growth and job creation, whether American or foreign-born. Because of this, they argue that arbitrarily low visa quotas and massive backlogs in the system plague the employment- based visa process.
Compete America’s legislative goals are:
On May 23, 2007, Thomas Friedman
wrote in The New York Times
, “Compete America…is pleading with Congress to boost…the number of employment-based green cards given to high-tech foreign workers who want to stay here. Give them all they want! Not only do our companies need them now, because we’re not training enough engineers, but they will, over time, start many more companies and create many more good jobs than they would possibly displace. Silicon Valley
is living proof of that — and where innovation happens matters. It’s still where the best jobs will be located.”
Altria
American Council of Engineering Companies
American Council on International Personnel
American Immigration Lawyers Association
Analog Devices
The Association of American Universities
Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities
The Boeing Company
Business Roundtable
Business Software Alliance
Cisco
Systems Inc.
The Coca-Cola Company
CompTIA
Entertainment Software Association
Genentech
Global Personnel Alliance
Google, Inc.
Hewlett-Packard Company
Information Technology Industry Council
Intel Corporation
International Rectifier
Microsoft Corporation
Motorola Inc.
NAFSA: Association of International Educators
National Association of Manufacturers
National Semiconductor
Oracle Corporation
QUALCOMM Inc.
Semiconductor Equipment & Materials International (SEMI
)
Semiconductor Industry Association
Society for Human Resource Management
Software & Information Industry Association
TechAmerica
TechNet
Texas Instruments
U.S. Chamber of Commerce
Immigration policy
An immigration policy is any policy of a state that deals with the transit of persons across its borders into the country, but especially those that intend to work and to remain in the country. Immigration policies can range from allowing no migration at all to allowing most types of migration,...
for highly educated foreign professionals.
Compete America supports the idea that scientists, researchers, innovators and engineers will always be in demand and will always drive economic growth and job creation, whether American or foreign-born. Because of this, they argue that arbitrarily low visa quotas and massive backlogs in the system plague the employment- based visa process.
Compete America’s legislative goals are:
- The end of arbitrary obstacles to employment and permanent residency for foreign-born master’s and Ph.D. graduates from U.S. universities
- A streamlined green card process
- A market-based H-1B visa cap
On May 23, 2007, Thomas Friedman
Thomas Friedman
Thomas Lauren Friedman is an American journalist, columnist and author. He writes a twice-weekly column for The New York Times. He has written extensively on foreign affairs including global trade, the Middle East, and environmental issues and has won the Pulitzer Prize three times.-Personal...
wrote in The New York Times
The New York Times
The New York Times is an American daily newspaper founded and continuously published in New York City since 1851. The New York Times has won 106 Pulitzer Prizes, the most of any news organization...
, “Compete America…is pleading with Congress to boost…the number of employment-based green cards given to high-tech foreign workers who want to stay here. Give them all they want! Not only do our companies need them now, because we’re not training enough engineers, but they will, over time, start many more companies and create many more good jobs than they would possibly displace. Silicon Valley
Silicon Valley
Silicon Valley is a term which refers to the southern part of the San Francisco Bay Area in Northern California in the United States. The region is home to many of the world's largest technology corporations...
is living proof of that — and where innovation happens matters. It’s still where the best jobs will be located.”
Principles of Compete America
Compete America believes in the following principles:- The United States must grow domestic sources of talent, and our member organizations are committed to improving U.S. science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEMSTEMSTEM can refer to*STEM fields – an acronym for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics*Scanning transmission electron microscopy...
) education and encouraging more young Americans to choose careers in those fields. - U.S. employers must be able to recruit and retain foreign-born highly educated professionals – particularly after they graduate from a U.S. university – as an important complement to domestic sources of talent.
- The U.S. employment-based visa system must be permanently fixed so that foreign-born talent can stay in the United States, innovating for America.
- Brainpower is even more essential in a down economy, and future growth and job creation will be led by innovation, whether it’s new technologies, new cures or new sources of energy. America does not have a monopoly on brainpower, and in an increasingly competitive global environment, we have to retain the talent that will keep us leading worldwide innovation.
- Strong, smart enforcement is needed, to protect American and foreign-national workers, and laws should punish bad actors and recognize that most employers who hire foreign professionals follow the rules scrupulously.
- Immigration reform must safeguard the interests of American workers, while recognizing that excessive and protectionist measures that shut off access to foreign-national talent will only inhibit innovation, job growth and the resulting opportunities for American workers.
List of Compete America coalition members
AccentureAccenture
Accenture plc is a global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company headquartered in Dublin, Republic of Ireland. It is the largest consulting firm in the world and is a Fortune Global 500 company. As of September 2011, the company had more than 236,000 employees across...
Altria
American Council of Engineering Companies
American Council of Engineering Companies
The American Council of Engineering Companies is a professional engineering organization, which together with the National Society of Professional Engineers and the American Society of Civil Engineers represent the majority of US engineers and engineering firms.ACEC’s origins begin in 1909 with...
American Council on International Personnel
American Council on International Personnel
The American Council on International Personnel ' is a member association serving as a resource for employers working worldwide to advance employment-based immigration of highly educated professionals. ACIP was founded in 1972 by Austin T. Fragomen, Jr...
American Immigration Lawyers Association
American Immigration Lawyers Association
- About AILA :The American Immigration Lawyers Association is the United States' immigration bar association. AILA is a non-profit organization that consists of lawyers and law professors that are dedicated to the practice and teaching of immigration law. Its member attorneys represent U.S....
Analog Devices
Analog Devices
Analog Devices, Inc. , known as ADI, is an American multinational semiconductor company specializing in data conversion and signal conditioning technology, headquartered in Norwood, Massachusetts...
The Association of American Universities
Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities
Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities
The Association of Public and Land-grant Universities is an American voluntary, non-profit association of public research universities, land-grant institutions, and state university systems. It has member campuses in all 50 states and the U.S. territories...
The Boeing Company
Business Roundtable
Business Roundtable
The Business Roundtable is a politically conservative group of chief executive officers of major U.S. corporations formed to promote pro-business public policy.-History:...
Business Software Alliance
Business Software Alliance
The Business Software Alliance is a trade group established in 1988 and representing a number of the world's largest software makers and is a member of the International Intellectual Property Alliance...
Cisco
Cisco
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Systems Inc.
The Coca-Cola Company
The Coca-Cola Company
The Coca-Cola Company is an American multinational beverage corporation and manufacturer, retailer and marketer of non-alcoholic beverage concentrates and syrups. The company is best known for its flagship product Coca-Cola, invented in 1886 by pharmacist John Stith Pemberton in Columbus, Georgia...
CompTIA
CompTIA
The Computing Technology Industry Association , a non-profit trade association, was created in 1982 as the Association of Better Computer Dealers, Inc. by representatives of five microcomputer dealerships...
Entertainment Software Association
Entertainment Software Association
The Entertainment Software Association is the trade association of the video game industry in the United States. It was formed in April 1994 as the Interactive Digital Software Association and renamed on July 16, 2003...
Genentech
Genentech
Genentech Inc., or Genetic Engineering Technology, Inc., is a biotechnology corporation, founded in 1976 by venture capitalist Robert A. Swanson and biochemist Dr. Herbert Boyer. Trailing the founding of Cetus by five years, it was an important step in the evolution of the biotechnology industry...
Global Personnel Alliance
Google, Inc.
Hewlett-Packard Company
Information Technology Industry Council
Intel Corporation
Intel Corporation
Intel Corporation is an American multinational semiconductor chip maker corporation headquartered in Santa Clara, California, United States and the world's largest semiconductor chip maker, based on revenue. It is the inventor of the x86 series of microprocessors, the processors found in most...
International Rectifier
International Rectifier
International Rectifier Corp. is a manufacturer of power semiconductors , located in El Segundo, California, USA...
Microsoft Corporation
Motorola Inc.
NAFSA: Association of International Educators
National Association of Manufacturers
National Association of Manufacturers
The National Association of Manufacturers is an advocacy group headquartered in Washington, D.C. with 10 additional offices across the country...
National Semiconductor
National Semiconductor
National Semiconductor was an American semiconductor manufacturer, that specialized in analog devices and subsystems,formerly headquartered in Santa Clara, California, USA. The products of National Semiconductor included power management circuits, display drivers, audio and operational amplifiers,...
Oracle Corporation
Oracle Corporation
Oracle Corporation is an American multinational computer technology corporation that specializes in developing and marketing hardware systems and enterprise software products – particularly database management systems...
QUALCOMM Inc.
Semiconductor Equipment & Materials International (SEMI
Semi
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)
Semiconductor Industry Association
Semiconductor Industry Association
The Semiconductor Industry Association is a trade association founded in 1977 that represents the United States semiconductor industry. It is located in San Jose, California....
Society for Human Resource Management
Society for Human Resource Management
The Society for Human Resource Management is a professional human resources association headquartered in Alexandria, Virginia. The largest such association in its field, SHRM promotes the role of HR as a profession and provides education, certification, and networking to its members while lobbying...
Software & Information Industry Association
TechAmerica
TechAmerica
TechAmerica is a US-based technology trade association. It was formed from the merger of AeA , the Cyber Security Industry Alliance , the Government Electronics & Information Technology Association , and the Information Technology Association of America in 2009...
TechNet
TechNet
TechNet may refer to:* Technet , a fictional group in the Marvel Comics universe* TechNet , Singapore's first Internet access provider* TechNet , an American political lobbying organization...
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments Inc. , widely known as TI, is an American company based in Dallas, Texas, United States, which develops and commercializes semiconductor and computer technology...
U.S. Chamber of Commerce