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On 06 June 2007, Google executives called for the United States government to raise the annual H-1B visa cap from the current annual quota of 65,000. Google used the example of Sergey Brin, one of the Google founders, to illustrate how highly skilled migrants benefit the U.S. economy.

New rules that require everyone to have a passport to cross the United States border are inconveniencing Americans who want to go on vacation. Politicians in Washington D.C. have received so many complaints that they are now likely to suspend the requirement, for Americans, temporarily.

Representatives from several government agencies are describing the White House and the Congress as being "deluged with complaints from furious constituents."

The United States Senate voted 49-48 this morning to place a five-year limit on a program that would have provided U.S. employers with 200,000 temporary foreign workers annually. The amendment was introduced by Senator Byron Dorgan of North Dakota.

At an event honoring Georgia business leaders on 17 May 2007, former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said that the United States could solve the problem of skilled labor shortages needed to build up U.S. infrastructure if the country would make it easier for foreign workers to come to America.

A new study by the Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC), authored by Deborah Reed and Hans Johnson, suggests that in the future, California will not have enough skilled workers to meet the demand of its economy. Home to Silicon Valley, California has long been known for a concentration of high-technology industries in the United States.