The Cycle updated 5/31/2013 6:49:31 PM ET 2013-05-31T22:49:31
Silicon Valley wants more skilled workers, but labor leaders
worry about protecting jobs for Americans.  As the immigration
bill makes its way in the Senate, a new Quinnipiac University
poll shows that 54% of American voters support a pathway to
citizenship for undocumented immigrants; 12% say these
immigrants can stay but not become citizens, and 29% say they
should be deported. An overwhelming majority–71%–don’t think
anything will be accomplished, in any case.  Two major liberal
groups are at odds on the issue: Big Labor and Silicon Valley.
“We have seen throughout history that inviting more immigrants
into the United States generally is good for the economy,” David
Goodfriend, former deputy staff secretary to President Clinton
said on Thursday’s show. Yet the labor movement says that
“before a company should be allowed to go hire somebody from
oversees we need to make that company show that they have really
tried first to hire an American.”